. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 275 275 875. A nower-biid caBtin? itsculyi, und, 27S, a flower of 277. Poii of Celandine open- ing. 273. Krnme of tlia same, uirneil flatwise, niid seeds still on it. 273. FIcuver-ljiul, &c. of Es'.'hscholtiia. 280. The cap-slinped oalvx fallen off. 281'. The pod. Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). Ovary and
. Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany. With a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany. 275 275 875. A nower-biid caBtin? itsculyi, und, 27S, a flower of 277. Poii of Celandine open- ing. 273. Krnme of tlia same, uirneil flatwise, niid seeds still on it. 273. FIcuver-ljiul, &c. of Es'.'hscholtiia. 280. The cap-slinped oalvx fallen off. 281'. The pod. Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making a flat sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of stigmas, . {Pajx(ver) ^Fovrr. Ovary and pod strictly one-celled, opening by valves, and leaving the placentas as a slender frame between them. Flowers yellow, rarely white. Pod and leaves prickly. Style none: stigmas 4 or 6, {Argtmbne) PrickLY-PorPY. Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, {StijUphorum) Celaxdine-Poppy. Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, {Chelidunium) Celandine. Ovary and long narrow pod 2-celled by a thick partition in which the seeds are em- bedded; stigma 2-horned, {Glaucium) * Horx-Poppy. Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod. Petals 8 to 12, narrow, Avhite. Pod oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sangtdnann) Bloodroot. Petals 4, broad, yellow. Sepals united into a pointed cap'which falls off as a lid (Fig. 280, 281). Receptacle or end of the flower-stalk expanded and top- shaped. Stigmas 3 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New Y
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