. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. k'lSTI::.^.. FIG. i. â Ko. 1, Lily ('LiKum Japonicum); 2, pink (Disjitlius); 3, a stamen ; 4, a pislH. 54. T^ie FLORAL ENVELOPES, Or PERIANTH,^onsi^t of One &» jiiore circles or whorls of leaves, surrounding the stamens. Tlie â 8Liter of these whorls is called (the co/j/fKand the other, if tliere fee an f, the corollcLi
. A class-book of botany, designed for colleges, academies, and other seminaries ... Illustrated by a flora of the northern, middle, and western states; particularly of the United States north of the Capitol, lat. 38 3/4. Botany; Plants -- United States; Plants -- Canada. k'lSTI::.^.. FIG. i. â Ko. 1, Lily ('LiKum Japonicum); 2, pink (Disjitlius); 3, a stamen ; 4, a pislH. 54. T^ie FLORAL ENVELOPES, Or PERIANTH,^onsi^t of One &» jiiore circles or whorls of leaves, surrounding the stamens. Tlie â 8Liter of these whorls is called (the co/j/fKand the other, if tliere fee an f, the corollcLi ;The cal^'x may, therefare, exist without the corollrL, Init the corolla cannot exist without the cab,^.) If net- ther of them exist, the flower is said?to be naked, or acklamyde- ous â (< , privative, and -/lotuvg, a cloak). 55. The CALYX (xaAy?, a cup),.therefore, is the external en- velop % the cup, of the flower, consisting of a whorl of leaves, â ivith iheh edges distinct or united, usually green, hut sometimes highly colored.'' The calyx-leaves are called ^sepals.'^ 56. (The COROLLA (Lat. coro^/a, diminutivefof corona, cxown) is the Ulterior envelope of the flower, consisting o^ one or more circles of leaves, either distinct, or united by their edges, usually of sor le other color than gi-een, aiid of a more delicate structure than 'he calyx. , fts leaves are called petals) 57. The STAMENs|are those thread-like organs, situated just witlii:i the perianth and around the pistils. Their number varies, from one to a hundred, but the most common number is fiv\i.^ Their office is, the fertilization of the seed. They are ccUectively called the andracium (ardgeg,^ stamens, ;, a house). * The plural of ^!''<^, a man, a term applied to the stamen, by Linnsus, in accordance â with hi favorite theory of the sexes of plants. The term yvvx., woman, is, on the same STWunds, applied to the pistil. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that
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