. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 36^ WAYSIDE WEEDS. present Handful, Lastly, the white meadow saxi- frage and the. willow herbs are so common that many of our readers may be able to add them to the "Pia, 29a,—Section of Blossom cf common Bramble, The vetch tribes, represented by the broom, gorge, vetch, and clover (Pigs, 23, 24), are very distinct from the rose family, to which the haw- thorn, apple, strawberry (Fig. 28), and rose itself (Pig. 25) belongs Equally diverse are our hemlock
. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 36^ WAYSIDE WEEDS. present Handful, Lastly, the white meadow saxi- frage and the. willow herbs are so common that many of our readers may be able to add them to the "Pia, 29a,—Section of Blossom cf common Bramble, The vetch tribes, represented by the broom, gorge, vetch, and clover (Pigs, 23, 24), are very distinct from the rose family, to which the haw- thorn, apple, strawberry (Fig. 28), and rose itself (Pig. 25) belongs Equally diverse are our hemlock friends (Fig. 30), and not less so the saxifrage and the willow herb. Yet, pull them to pieces, they are all many-petaled, polypetalous (Pig. 31). Thus far they resemble the plants of Handful I., and, for aught you see at present, might be grouped with them; but we must look further. Different as the groups of Handful II. may seem from each other, they have one common point of resemblance in which they differ from Handful I., and that is in the mode in which their stamens and petals are attached to the other parts of the flower. Call to mind that in the many-petaled blossoms of Handful I. the petals and the stamens were invariably at-. 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 Thomson, Spencer, fl. 1848-1883. London : Groombridge
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