Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 254.—Willow seeds ready for flight. may be united under the one order Amentaceae. They arewoody plants with alternate leaves. The staminate flowers hang 282 Plants and their Ways in South Africa in aments or catkins. The pistillate flowers form catkins as inWillow and Poplar, or they may occur in few-flowered the Oak the head is reduced to one flower. The fruit ofSalicaceae is a many-seeded capsule, in the other orders it isa nut. The flowers are dioecious or monoecious. They areout in good season in the early spring, and are swinging their
Plants and their ways in South Africa . Fig. 254.—Willow seeds ready for flight. may be united under the one order Amentaceae. They arewoody plants with alternate leaves. The staminate flowers hang 282 Plants and their Ways in South Africa in aments or catkins. The pistillate flowers form catkins as inWillow and Poplar, or they may occur in few-flowered the Oak the head is reduced to one flower. The fruit ofSalicaceae is a many-seeded capsule, in the other orders it isa nut. The flowers are dioecious or monoecious. They areout in good season in the early spring, and are swinging theirgold-and-silver tassels before the leaves get large enough to bein the way of the wind-scattered
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