. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. 478 474 Fig. 472. A flowering branch of Sednm acre. Fig. 478. A flower of S. acre, natural size. Fig. 474. A flower (12-parted, symmetrical, regular) of Semper- vlvum (Houseleek), 1. SE'DUM. Stone-crop. Orpine. Sepals and petals 5, sometimes 4, distinct. Stamens 10 or 8. Pods 5, sometimes 4, distinct, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the base of each.—Mostly U herbs, with 5-parted flowers in cymes, or in one-sided clusters. 1 Flowers white, or purplish, or ros
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. 478 474 Fig. 472. A flowering branch of Sednm acre. Fig. 478. A flower of S. acre, natural size. Fig. 474. A flower (12-parted, symmetrical, regular) of Semper- vlvum (Houseleek), 1. SE'DUM. Stone-crop. Orpine. Sepals and petals 5, sometimes 4, distinct. Stamens 10 or 8. Pods 5, sometimes 4, distinct, many-seeded, with an entire scale at the base of each.—Mostly U herbs, with 5-parted flowers in cymes, or in one-sided clusters. 1 Flowers white, or purplish, or rose-colored 2 1 S. z'ere.'Iceland Moss. Fls. yellow. Plant in low tufts. Glardens. 2 Ijeaves scattered, 1-3'long (Figs. 472, 473.) 2 S. terna'tum. Stone-crop. Leaves in whorls of 3'8. Flowers white, in a 3-spiked cyme. 3 S. telephloi'des. False 0. Leaves lanceolate or obovate, nearly entire. M. S. 4 S. Tele>hium. Oommon, 0. Leaves oval, serrate, obtuse. Flowers purplish. 5 S. pulchel'lum. Handsome 0. Lvs. linear. Fls. in an umbel of spikes, purp. Order LXI. SAXIPEAGACE^. Saxifrages. Herbs or alvrubs with the pistils fewer than the sepals of the flower; the petals as many as the calyx sepah (4 or 5), and togelier with tha. 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 Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881. New York : A. A. Barnes
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