. 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. 122 POrULAR FLORA. 8. POPPY FAMILY. Order Herbs with a milk-white, yellow, or reddish juice (colorless in Eschscholtzia), which is bitter or acrid and poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having onlv 2 (rarely 3) sepals, whicli fall when the blossom opens, but 4 (or in one case 8 or 12) petals, which fall early. Sta- mens many, on the re- ceptacle. P
. 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. 122 POrULAR FLORA. 8. POPPY FAMILY. Order Herbs with a milk-white, yellow, or reddish juice (colorless in Eschscholtzia), which is bitter or acrid and poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having onlv 2 (rarely 3) sepals, whicli fall when the blossom opens, but 4 (or in one case 8 or 12) petals, which fall early. Sta- mens many, on the re- ceptacle. Pistil one, compound, but almost al- ways one-celled, many- seeded, the seeds borne on the walls or on pro- jections from them (pa- rietal). Eschscholtzia is remarkable for its calvx shaped like a pointed cap or a candle-extin- guisher. — In most cases we have only one spe- cies of each 275 275 875. A nower-biid caBtin? itsculyi, und, 27S, a flower of 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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