. 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; Botany. 166 POPULAR FLORA. there are five chaflfy and pointed scales (Fig. 409). But more commonly the pappus con- sists of bristles, or downy hairs (as its name denotes). Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afFord most familiar examples of such a hairy or downy pappus; those of Thistles, &c. in autumn sailing about in every breeze. Fig. 411 shows the very soft dow


. 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; Botany. 166 POPULAR FLORA. there are five chaflfy and pointed scales (Fig. 409). But more commonly the pappus con- sists of bristles, or downy hairs (as its name denotes). Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afFord most familiar examples of such a hairy or downy pappus; those of Thistles, &c. in autumn sailing about in every breeze. Fig. 411 shows the very soft downy pappus of Sow- Thistle. Fig. 410, that of the Dandelion; this is raised upon a long beak to the akene, which lengthens greatly after flowering. This family contains about an eighth or tenth part of all Flowering plants. But it is too diffi- 404. Half of a heaii of flowers of Coreopsis. cult for the beginneu. So we here barely men- tion a few of the common plants which belong to 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 York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.


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