. 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. FLOWERS : THEIR FORMS AND KIXDS. 69. IS9 Hydrangea. stamens only, and others perfect, having both stamens and pistils, either on the same or on different individuals. The Red Maj^le is a very good case of this kind ; the two or three sorts of flowers look- ing very differ- ently when they appear in earh-- spring; those of one tree having long red stamens and no good pis- til, those
. 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. FLOWERS : THEIR FORMS AND KIXDS. 69. IS9 Hydrangea. stamens only, and others perfect, having both stamens and pistils, either on the same or on different individuals. The Red Maj^le is a very good case of this kind ; the two or three sorts of flowers look- ing very differ- ently when they appear in earh-- spring; those of one tree having long red stamens and no good pis- til, those of other trees having con- spicuous pistils, in some blossoms with no good sta- mens at all, in others with short ones. There are also what are called abortive or 206. Neutral Flowers ; having neither stamens nor pistils, and so good for nothing except for show. In the Snowball of the gardens and in richly cultivated Hydran- geas all the blossoms are neutral, and no fruit is formed. Even in the wild state of these shrubs, some of the blossoms around the margin of the cluster are neu- tral (as in the Wild Hydrangea, Fig. 1G9), consisting only of three or four flower-leaves, very much larger than the small perfect flowers which make up the rest of the cluster. Also what the gardener calls Double Flowers^ when full, are neutral, as in double Roses and Buttercups. These are blossoms which by cultivation have all their stamens and pistils changed into petals. 207. A Symmetrical Flo^Ver is one which has an equal number of parts of each kind or in each set or row. This is so in the Stonecrop (Fig. 153), which has five sepals in the calyx, five petals in the corolla, ten stamens (that is, two sets of stamens of five each), and five pistils. Or often it has flowers with four sepals, and then there are only four. 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
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