. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. ROSALBS. 531 Africa. Some of tlie latter bear edible fruits. The bark of Brazilian trees of the genera Licania and Couepia is said to contain such consid- erable quantities of silica, that it is burnt by the natives and used in the manufacture of pottery. Order Leguminosse.—The Pulse Family. Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with alternate and usually compound leaves ; flowers for the most part zygoiuorphic ; stamens usually twice as many as the petals ; pistil FiQS. 480-6.—Illustkations or Papilionackje. (480-5, Lathyrua odoratm.). Pia. 484. Fig. 480.—S
. Botany for high schools and colleges. Botany. ROSALBS. 531 Africa. Some of tlie latter bear edible fruits. The bark of Brazilian trees of the genera Licania and Couepia is said to contain such consid- erable quantities of silica, that it is burnt by the natives and used in the manufacture of pottery. Order Leguminosse.—The Pulse Family. Herbs, shrubs, and trees, with alternate and usually compound leaves ; flowers for the most part zygoiuorphic ; stamens usually twice as many as the petals ; pistil FiQS. 480-6.—Illustkations or Papilionackje. (480-5, Lathyrua odoratm.). Pia. 484. Fig. 480.—Section of flower. Magnified. Ml'. 482.—Calyx. Magnified. Pig. 484.—Ripe fruit. Fig 488.—Section of seed of Tetragonololms. Magnifled. Fig. 486. Fig. 481.—Diagram of flower. Fig. 48-3.—Stamens and pistil Mag. Vhj. 485.—Part of fruit, wiUi a seed. A monocarpellary and free ; seeds generally wanting: 3B endosperm vast order of 6500 species, distributed throughout the world. The species are usually disposed in three sub-orders, each containing many tribes. Sub-Order I. PaplUonaceee, with zygomorphie flowers ; sta- mens generally ten, monadelphous or diadelphous. This sub-order contains a large number of plants of great economic importance. 'X:\\e food plants inclu>ie the Pea {Pimm sativum), the so-called English Bean (Vicia faba), the Pole Bean {fhaseolus vulgaris), the Field Bean. 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 E. (Charles Edwin), 1845-1915. New York : H. Holt
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