. 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. 214 POPULAR FLORA. 101. IRIS FAMILY. Order IRIDACEiE. Herbs witli perennial roots, commonly with rootstocks, bulb?, or corms, and witli eqiiltcvnt leaves (151, Fig. 64); the flowers perfect, regular or irregular; tube of the corolla-like perianth below coherent with the surface of the ovary, and so appearing to grow from its summit; stamens only 3, one before each of the outer divis
. 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. 214 POPULAR FLORA. 101. IRIS FAMILY. Order IRIDACEiE. Herbs witli perennial roots, commonly with rootstocks, bulb?, or corms, and witli eqiiltcvnt leaves (151, Fig. 64); the flowers perfect, regular or irregular; tube of the corolla-like perianth below coherent with the surface of the ovary, and so appearing to grow from its summit; stamens only 3, one before each of the outer divis- ions of the perianth; their anthers turned outwards, i. e. lookinsc towards the perianth and opening on that side. Ovary 3-celled, making a many-seeded pod : style one : stigmas 3, often flat or petal-like. Herbage, rootstocks, &c. generally acrid or sharp- tasted. Flowers generally showy, and from a spathe of one or more leat-like bracts, or from the axils of the uppermost leaves, each one generally opening but 514. Plant rf Cresled Dwarf Iris. 515. Top of the style nnd tlie 3 petaMlke etismas, also 2 of the slaiiieiis. 5lj. Mauiiifk-il iiisiil and lower ) of the lulie of the iitriuui li, divideil OUCC. Iciiglliwise : (lie fohige cm luvay. 517 Lower |.iut of a pod, divided Cicsswise. 61S. tited. S19. Mugiiified seciiou of llie fame, iliowiii^ ilie eiiibiyo. Filaments monadelphous in a tube which encloses the style as in a sheath: stfgmas thread-shaped: perianth 6-parted nearly to the ovary, widely spread- ing, opening in sunshine and for only one day. Flowers small, blue or purple, with G equal obovate divisions: stigmas simple: stems or scapes fiat or 2-winged, from fibi'ous roots; leaves narrow and grass-like, {Sisijrinchium) Bluk-eyed-Grass. Flowers very large, orange and spotted with crimson and purple; the 3 inner divisions much smaller and narrowed in the middle: stigmas each 2-cleft: scape terete, from a coated bulb; leaves plaited, ( Tif/ridia) *Tiger-flower
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