. 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; Botany. 168 POPULAR FLORA. 53. HEATH FAMILY. Order ERICACEiE. Distinguished generally by the anthers opening by a pore or small hole at the top of each cell, and from all the other orders with a monopetalous corolla, except the two foregoing, by having the stamens free from the corolla, as many or twice as many as its lobes. But the petals are sometimes entirely separate, espec
. 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; Botany. 168 POPULAR FLORA. 53. HEATH FAMILY. Order ERICACEiE. Distinguished generally by the anthers opening by a pore or small hole at the top of each cell, and from all the other orders with a monopetalous corolla, except the two foregoing, by having the stamens free from the corolla, as many or twice as many as its lobes. But the petals are sometimes entirely separate, especially in the third and fourth sub-families. Fruit several-celled. Style one. This large order comprises four very distinct sub-fami- lies, viz-;—. 413. Half or a Cranberry-bloaaom, magiiifietl. 414, A Checkerberry plant,, or Aromatic Winlergreen. 415. Slice across the " berry," an J the pod Iti- sifle. 416. Wintergreen, No. 3. 417. A tlower, natural size. 418. Asia- men. 419. Pod cut across. 420, A pistil. 4~l. A seed. I. HUCKLEBERRY Subfamily. Teeth of the calyx, corolla, and stamens on the ovary, the tube of the calyx coherent with its surface. Style and stigma one. Anthers of two nearly separate cells, tapering upwards into a tube or tip, which opens at the end. Shrubs, &o. Ovary 10-celled with one ovule in each cell; berry with 10 largish seeds, or rather stones, in a circle, (Gayltissacia) 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.
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