. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. 164 Elementary Botany seeds, concealed within calyx and often indehiscent. Many species are very largely cultivated as fodder plants. Ulex, Furze. I^eaves simple and acerose; two sepals; stamens monadelphous. Vicia, Vetch and Tares. Leaves imparipinnate, ending in tendrils and with many leaflets; stamens diadelphous; style thread-like. Very useful fodder plants. One exotic species, V. Fab
. Elementary botany : theoretical and practical. A text-book designed primarily for students of science classes connected with the science and art department of the committee of council on education . Botany. 164 Elementary Botany seeds, concealed within calyx and often indehiscent. Many species are very largely cultivated as fodder plants. Ulex, Furze. I^eaves simple and acerose; two sepals; stamens monadelphous. Vicia, Vetch and Tares. Leaves imparipinnate, ending in tendrils and with many leaflets; stamens diadelphous; style thread-like. Very useful fodder plants. One exotic species, V. Faba, gives us the Broad Bean. The following are important exotic plants belonging to this sub-order :—Used for food purposes : Arachis, Ground-nuts; Ervum, Lentils; Phaseolus vulgaris, the French Bean; and F. coccineus, the Scarlet Runner; Fisum, Pea. Used for various purposes: Balsam of Tolu, Indigo, Kino, Laburnum, Liquorice, Ordeal Bean, Rosewood, Tonquin Bean. The following important plants belong to the other two sub-orders :—Braziletto-wood, Cassia, Copal, Copaiba Balsam, Locust-tree, Logwood, Sandal-wood, Sanders-woodj Sensitive Plant, Tamarind. ROSACEA. Typical plant, Bramble {Rubus fruticosus); also compare with it Blackthorn or Sloe, Rose, and Apple. Note, the plant is a shrub (in the order there are also herbs and trees); leaves alternate, stipules present, adhering to the petiole (stipules are seldom absent in the order); . calyx gamosepalous, five divisions, inferior (there may be but four divisions to the calyx—in the Rose it forms a cup-like tube enclosing the carpels [fig. 196], and in the Apple and Pear it is adherent to the carpels, figs. 301 and 279); corolla poly- petalous, five petals, perigynous (in a few cases there are four petals, and in some cases none); stamens numerous, perigynous ; carpels numerous (in the Blackthorn there is but one), apocarpous; fruit an etcerio of drupes. (In the order the fruit is very various. Thus it may be. a single drupe
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