An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . 48 an interesting topic to pursue much more in detail were the fpaceavailable. ARRANGEMENT OE FLOWERS. The arrangement of flowers on the flower stem constitutes oneof the means of identifying the different species of the plant. Wlien the single flower finds itself the sole occupant of anisolated portion of the stem it is said to he solitary as it is in caseof the violet or the tulip hut very frequently the flowers are
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states (excepting the grasses and sedges) the descriptive text written in familiar language . 48 an interesting topic to pursue much more in detail were the fpaceavailable. ARRANGEMENT OE FLOWERS. The arrangement of flowers on the flower stem constitutes oneof the means of identifying the different species of the plant. Wlien the single flower finds itself the sole occupant of anisolated portion of the stem it is said to he solitary as it is in caseof the violet or the tulip hut very frequently the flowers are disposed 36 OUTLINE OF STRUCTURAL BOTANY in groups which ma} be simple or quite complicated. We speakof such a group as the inflorescence. In the inflorescence of many plants there are found memberswhich do not answer exactly to leaves and are not properly a partof the flower, they are bracts, often found at the base of the im-mediate flower stem or at the base of the flower itself. We havean example of the first in the fringy collar below the radiatingpedicles in the flower cluster of the wild carrot and of the otherin the green organs below the head of the china aster.
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