The elements of botany for The elements of botany for beginners and for schools elementsofbotany00grayuoft Year: [1887] u A PATTERN PLANT. [section 2 15. Blossoming. lu Flax the flowers make their appearance at the end of the stem and branches. The growth, which otherwise might con- tinue them farther or indefinitely, now takes the form of blossom, and is subservient to the production of seed. 16. The Flower of flax consists, first, of five small green leaves, crowded into a circle: this is the Calyx, or flower-cup. When its sepa- rate leaves are referred to they are called Sepals, a name whi
The elements of botany for The elements of botany for beginners and for schools elementsofbotany00grayuoft Year: [1887] u A PATTERN PLANT. [section 2 15. Blossoming. lu Flax the flowers make their appearance at the end of the stem and branches. The growth, which otherwise might con- tinue them farther or indefinitely, now takes the form of blossom, and is subservient to the production of seed. 16. The Flower of flax consists, first, of five small green leaves, crowded into a circle: this is the Calyx, or flower-cup. When its sepa- rate leaves are referred to they are called Sepals, a name which distin- guishes them from foliage-leaves on the one hand, and from petals on the other. Then come five delicate and colored leaves (in the Flax, blue), wiiich form the Corolla, and its leaves are Petals; then a circle of organs, in
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