. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 225 far the most of which are found in the western United States. They have clustered, usually handsome, flowers, the calyx and corolla 5-cleft or 5-parted, the lobes twisted or contorted. Stamens 5, the anthers ver- satile (attached by the middle); ovary 3-celled, with 3 stigmas, becoming in fruit a 3-valved capsule. The seeds are peculiar, in some cases being winged, and in others enveloped in mucilage and having the property of emitting spiral tubes when wetted. This family includes the large genus Phlox,
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 225 far the most of which are found in the western United States. They have clustered, usually handsome, flowers, the calyx and corolla 5-cleft or 5-parted, the lobes twisted or contorted. Stamens 5, the anthers ver- satile (attached by the middle); ovary 3-celled, with 3 stigmas, becoming in fruit a 3-valved capsule. The seeds are peculiar, in some cases being winged, and in others enveloped in mucilage and having the property of emitting spiral tubes when wetted. This family includes the large genus Phlox, which affords so many ornamental annuals and perennials to our flower beds; scarcely less pleasing are the Gilias, of which there is an enormous number of species in California. Polemonium is represented most abundantly in Alaska. Fig. 195. £.^.p Eastern Polemonium, or Jacob's Ladder {Polemonium Vanbruniiae), One-half natural size. Original. and the Eocky Mountains, but there are one or two eastern species (Fig. 195). Another familiar garden plant is the exotic climbing vine, Cohoea scandens. The Polemoniums, as a rule, possess medicinal 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 Pollard, Charles Louis, 1872-. Washington, D. C. , The Plant World Co
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