. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. GEEANIACEiE—SAPINDACE^ 343 T. m&jus, Linn. Climbing nasturtium. Tall-climbing: flowers yellow, red, cream-white, and other colors: petals not pointed. T. minus, Linn. Dwarf nasturtium. Fip:. 195. Not climbing : petals with a sharp point. 5. IMPATIENS. Touch-me-not. Jewel-weed Soft or succulent tender herbs with simple alternate or opposite leaves and very irregular flowers: sepals 3 to .5, usually 4, one of them produced into a large curving spur : petals apparently 2, but each consisting of a united pair : stamens 5 : fruit 5-valved, elast
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. GEEANIACEiE—SAPINDACE^ 343 T. m&jus, Linn. Climbing nasturtium. Tall-climbing: flowers yellow, red, cream-white, and other colors: petals not pointed. T. minus, Linn. Dwarf nasturtium. Fip:. 195. Not climbing : petals with a sharp point. 5. IMPATIENS. Touch-me-not. Jewel-weed Soft or succulent tender herbs with simple alternate or opposite leaves and very irregular flowers: sepals 3 to .5, usually 4, one of them produced into a large curving spur : petals apparently 2, but each consisting of a united pair : stamens 5 : fruit 5-valved, elastically discharging the seeds (whence the names "Im- patiens"and "touch-me-not"). I. Balsdmina, Linn. Garden balsam. Erect and stout, \-2}4. ft.: leaves lanceolate, toothed: flowers in the axils, of many colors, often full double. - ,. ,.^ I. bifldra, Walt. (/. Adva, Orange jewel-weed. Impatiens biflora. Fig. 462. Tall branching plant (2^ ft.) with alternate oval or long-oval blunt-toothed long-stalked leaves: flowers % in. long, horizon- tal and hanging, orange-yellow with a red-spotted lower lip, the upper lip less spotted and of one piece, the two green sepals at the apex of the pedicel closely appressed to the tube, the tail of the spur curled under the spur: pod opening elastically when ripe, throwing the seeds (the .l valves quickly curling from above downwards). Common in swales. I. ailrea, Muhl. (I. pallida, Nutt.). Yellow jewel- weed. Fig. 4G3. Leaves usually stronger-toothed, the teeth usually ending in sharp points: flowers 1 in. long and much broader than those of I. biflora, clear yellow, the upper lip of two parts, the lower also of two parts and nearly horizontal, the 2 sepals at apex of pedicel large and not closely appressed, tail shorter : pods as <^^^ in the other. Less common than the other, but often "" growing with it. 463. Impatiens aurea. XXVI. SAPINDACE^. Soapberry or Maple Family. Trees or shrubs, of various ha
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