. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. achother) ; Graminae, or grass family ; Coniferse, or are somewhat over 200 recognized families of floweringplants. The word order is often used in the same sense, butfamily is to be preferred. Suggestions.—There are monadelphous and diadelphous stamensin other families than the Leguminosa;, but there are no otherplants which have typically characteristic papilionaceous are some Leguminosse, however, which have regular flowers,but they are placed in the family
. Lessons with plants. Suggestions for seeing and interpreting some of the common forms of vegetation. achother) ; Graminae, or grass family ; Coniferse, or are somewhat over 200 recognized families of floweringplants. The word order is often used in the same sense, butfamily is to be preferred. Suggestions.—There are monadelphous and diadelphous stamensin other families than the Leguminosa;, but there are no otherplants which have typically characteristic papilionaceous are some Leguminosse, however, which have regular flowers,but they are placed in the family because of their legumes andcertain other features. The pupil should examine any of the mal-low family for monadelphous stamens,—as cotton, abutilons, holly-hocks, hibiscuses, and mallows (the common round-leaved littleweed known as cheeses is a mallowj; also the passion flowers. XXXIX. PARTICULAR TYPES OF FLOWERS,CONTINUED 241. The flower of the common blue violet isdisplayed in Fig. 203. In general form it sug-gests a papilionaceous flower. It differs radically, o 210 liESSOJ^fS WITH PLANTS. however, in having two petals on the upper sideinstead of one, and the lowest petal is morpho-logically only one (since the flowerthroughout is in fives). Thislower petal is produced into a dis-tinct sac or spur, which is char-acteristic of the violets. The sta-mens are five, with free filamentsbut connivent anthers, and thepod, which is 1-loculed, with threeplacentae, is much unlikethat of the pea violets, therefore, canclaim no close kinshipwith the Leguminosse. 241a. The violet is the typeof a small family known as theViolaoese, which comprises some-thing like two hundred and fiftykinds of plants in various parts of theworld, some of which are small , are about sixty kinds of violetsin North America. At this point thepupil may take up a study of the pansy. 242. The dutchmans pipe,or pipe-vine (a kind of aristo-lochia), is so-called from theflowers (Figs. 204,
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