. 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. AND WHAT THEIR PARTS ARE. 11. Tlie Flower. Flowers are most interesting to tlie botanist; who not only ad- mires them for their beauty, the exquisite arrangement and forms of their i)arLS, and the wonderful variety they exhibit, but also sees in the blossoms much of the na- ture or character of each plant, and finds in them the best marks for distinguishin<T^ the sorts of plants
. 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. AND WHAT THEIR PARTS ARE. 11. Tlie Flower. Flowers are most interesting to tlie botanist; who not only ad- mires them for their beauty, the exquisite arrangement and forms of their i)arLS, and the wonderful variety they exhibit, but also sees in the blossoms much of the na- ture or character of each plant, and finds in them the best marks for distinguishin<T^ the sorts of plants and the family they belong to. So let the student learn at once 12. What the Parts of a Flower arc. A flower, with all the parts present, consists of Calyx, Corolla, Sta- mens, and Pistils. One from the Morning-Glory (Fig. 4,y) will serve for an example. Here is one taken off, and shown of about the natural size, the corolla, Fig. 5, separated from the calyx, Fig. 6. The calyx and the corolla are the Floral Envelopes, or the leaves of the flower. They cover in the bud, and protect the stamens and pistils, which arc the Essential Organs of the flower, because both of these are necessary to forming the seed. 13. The Calyx — a Latin name for " flower-cup " — is the cup or outer covering of the blossom (Fig. G). It is apt to be green and leaf-like. 14. The Corolla is the inner cup, or inner set of leaves, of the flower. It is veiy seldom green, as the calyx commonly is, but is " colored," i. e. of some other color than green, and of a delicate texture. So it is i\\e most showy part of the blossom. Fis;. 5 shows the corolla of the Morninir- Glory whole. Fig. 7 is the same, split down and spread open to show 15. The Stamens. These in this flower grow fast to the bottom of the corolla. There are five stamens in the Morning- Glory. Each stamen consists of two parts, namely, a Filament and an Anther. Tlie Filament is the stalk; the Anther is a little case, or hol
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