. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 74 â WAYSIDE WEEDS'. into tribes, whereof the lettuces, dandelion, hawk- weed, etc., belong to one, the thistles and burdocks to another, the daisy, ragwort, colt^s-foot, and many another to the third. We have already alluded to .the peculiar form which the oalyx-^not the invollicre, rememberâ'â assumes in the composite family; feathery in a. Fi^. 51,âBack view of blossom of conmion Hfiwkweed. a, strap-shldped florets of ray j b, bracts, oosstituting the common ioraluc
. Wayside weeds, or, Botanical lessons from the lanes and hedgerows : with a chapter on classification . Botany; Wild flowers. 74 â WAYSIDE WEEDS'. into tribes, whereof the lettuces, dandelion, hawk- weed, etc., belong to one, the thistles and burdocks to another, the daisy, ragwort, colt^s-foot, and many another to the third. We have already alluded to .the peculiar form which the oalyx-^not the invollicre, rememberâ'â assumes in the composite family; feathery in a. Fi^. 51,âBack view of blossom of conmion Hfiwkweed. a, strap-shldped florets of ray j b, bracts, oosstituting the common ioralucre; c, peduncle; d, scale. greater or less degree, as famiHar to us all, in thistle- down, and in the dandelion parachute, and botani- cally called the pappus, it remains after the floret has withered and fallen off, and iintil the ripened seed calls for its aid to transport it far from the parent plant. Something more of this aerial seed- sowing may we learn if we give careful attention to. 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 Thomson, Spencer, fl. 1848-1883. London : Groombridge
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