. The first book of botany : designed to cultivate the observing powers of children. PLANT DESCEIPTION. 125 Description of Fig. 24=2. Roots fibrous. Leaves radical, petiolate, exstipulate, palmate-veined, entire, acutely three-lobed; base cordate,surface hairy. Bracts hairy, in a whorl of threenear the flower. LsHFLORESCENCE solitary, on a slender hairy scape.^ Flower. Calyx ; sepals 8-12, oblong spread-ing : COROLLA none: stamens many; filamentsthreadlike; anthers oval, two-celled: pistil ; car-pels many; style very short; stigma continued downthe inner face of the style. * Scape, a peduncle
. The first book of botany : designed to cultivate the observing powers of children. PLANT DESCEIPTION. 125 Description of Fig. 24=2. Roots fibrous. Leaves radical, petiolate, exstipulate, palmate-veined, entire, acutely three-lobed; base cordate,surface hairy. Bracts hairy, in a whorl of threenear the flower. LsHFLORESCENCE solitary, on a slender hairy scape.^ Flower. Calyx ; sepals 8-12, oblong spread-ing : COROLLA none: stamens many; filamentsthreadlike; anthers oval, two-celled: pistil ; car-pels many; style very short; stigma continued downthe inner face of the style. * Scape, a peduncle which arises from an underground stem. Fig. PLAKT DESCEIPTIOIS^. 127 Description of Fig. 243. KooTs a scaly bulb. Leaves radical, petiolate, exstipiilate, digitatelytliree-fingered; leaflets sessile, featlier-veined, entire, obcordate; petiole long, slender. Inflorescence a loose terminal umbel. Flower. Calyx ; sepals 5, polysepalous : corol-la ; petals 5, regular, polypetalous, obovate, muclilarger than the sepals : stamens 10, of unequal length,hairy; fllaments awl-shaped, flattened below, growntogether; anthers short, oval, two-celled: pistil:ovary ovoid, of 5 united carpels / styles free, hairy ;stigmas enlarged, rounded. Fig. 244.
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