. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 534 BOTANY. Lysiloma Sabicu, a large Cuban tree, yields a Lard and very durable timber, highly valued for ship-building and for other purposes. Many species of Acacia and 3Iimosa are in cultivation in gardens and conservatories. Mimosa pudica, from South America, is interesting on account of its extreme sensitiveness to a touch or jar. On this account it is commonly known as the Sensitive Plant. Its leaves expand in the light and con- tract in darkness, and in the proper temperature close at once upon. Fig. 488. Fig. 488.—Expanded compound leaf o
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. 534 BOTANY. Lysiloma Sabicu, a large Cuban tree, yields a Lard and very durable timber, highly valued for ship-building and for other purposes. Many species of Acacia and 3Iimosa are in cultivation in gardens and conservatories. Mimosa pudica, from South America, is interesting on account of its extreme sensitiveness to a touch or jar. On this account it is commonly known as the Sensitive Plant. Its leaves expand in the light and con- tract in darkness, and in the proper temperature close at once upon. Fig. 488. Fig. 488.—Expanded compound leaf of Mimosa pudica. Fig 489.—Closed leaf of the same. Fig. 489. being touched or jarred, opening again, hovrever, in a few minutes (Figs. 488-9). Order Connaraceae.—Trees and shrubs of the tropics, one of which, Connarus Lambertii of Guiana, furnishes the beautiful Zebra-wood. 595.—Cohort XXVII. Sapindales. Shrubs and trees, with usually compound leaves. Flowers often zygomorphic and diclinous ; ovary superior ; seeds usually without endo- sperm. Order Moringeee.—Contains three Old World trees, of doubtful affinity. Order Coriariese.—Shrubs of one genus and three to five species, found in the Mediterranean region, the Himalayas, Japan, New Ze'a- land, and South America. Their affinities are very obscure. Order Anacardiaceae.—The Cashew Family. Trees and shrubs, with gummy or milky-resinous juice, often poisonous ; fruit usually a drupe. Species about 450, chiefly found in the tropics. The common. 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 Bessey, Charles Edwin, 1845- [from old catalog]. New York, H. Holt and company
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