The American botanist and florist; including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union . ior, as exemplified in the Mock-orange and Saxifrage (53). Review.—%1. The type once more. State the only true distinction between calyx andcorolla. 88. What part in the floral leaves corresponds to blade ? What part to petiole ?General forms. 89. Several peculiar forms mentioned. 90. Why should the floral organsbe united ? What absurdity in the v\^ord
The American botanist and florist; including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union . ior, as exemplified in the Mock-orange and Saxifrage (53). Review.—%1. The type once more. State the only true distinction between calyx andcorolla. 88. What part in the floral leaves corresponds to blade ? What part to petiole ?General forms. 89. Several peculiar forms mentioned. 90. Why should the floral organsbe united ? What absurdity in the v\^ord monosepalous, etc. ? The opposite What the tube?—the limb? 92. Varieties in the degree of cohesion (flgs. 45-48).93. Hovi^ in Grape, 94. Define adherent. 95. Use of the word hypogynous? 97. Epigynousf Two equivalent phrases. 98. Calyx half-superior. Ex-plain figs. 49-54. CHAPTER VI. rOEMS OF THE PERIANTH. 99. The innumerable forms of the perianth, whether calyx orcorolla, or both, are first to be distinguished as polypetalousor gamopetalous, and secondly, as regular or irregular. ThePOLYPETALOUS-re^i^/ar forms may be referred to the four typesrepresented in the drawings below, and described as Forms of corolla,!.—5b, Cheirantlius (Stock). 56, Silene regia (Scarlet Catchfly). 57, Pyrus coronaria. 58, Amaryllis (Atamiisco Lily). 100. First, Cruciform {crucis, of a cross) or cross-shapedcorollas consist of four long-clawed petals, placed at right anglesto each other, as in Mustard, Wall-flower (55). 2d, Caryophyl- FORMS OF THE PERIANTH. 35 laceous or pink-like corollas consist of five petals with long, erectclaws, and spreading laminae; as in the Pink (56). 3d, Mosa-ceous or rose-like corollas are composed of five short-clawed openpetals; as in the Rose (fig. 57). 4th, Liliaceous flowers, likethe Lilies, consist of a six-leaved perianth; each leaf graduallyspreading so as to resemble, as a whole, the funnel-form (58). 101. Polypetalou
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