. A popular California flora, or, Manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of flowering plants growing in central California, and westward to the ocean. With illustrated introductory lessons, especially adapted to the Pacific coast. domestic animals. Tropical plants of thisorder supply, among others, the following articles of commerce: Gumarable, gum Senegal, gum copal, dragons-blood, indigo, logwood, brazil-wood, rosewood, tamarind. Many species hare medical value, as senna,catchu, copaiba, etc. There are over 6,000 species of leguminous plants, mostly 350 specie
. A popular California flora, or, Manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of flowering plants growing in central California, and westward to the ocean. With illustrated introductory lessons, especially adapted to the Pacific coast. domestic animals. Tropical plants of thisorder supply, among others, the following articles of commerce: Gumarable, gum Senegal, gum copal, dragons-blood, indigo, logwood, brazil-wood, rosewood, tamarind. Many species hare medical value, as senna,catchu, copaiba, etc. There are over 6,000 species of leguminous plants, mostly 350 species are natives of the United States, more than half ofwliich are found in California. Only 4 or 5 species are common to thiscoast and the Atlantic States, and these have forms peculiar to eachcoast. Our 180 species are grouped under 14 genera, while the 150 speciesof the East (i. e., the Mississippi States and eastward to the Atlantic),represent 50 genera. There are about 40 species of lupine, and the samenumber belonging to the genus Astragalus, growing within the limits ofthis State. Only two kinds of the former and 4 of the latter grow eastof the Mississippi. The latter is the largest American genus of the 38b LEGUMINOSiE. (PEA FAMILY.). Fig. A. At a is seen a single flower of Lupinus ; b, the same with the upper and side petals re-moved, showing the united pair of long-clawed, lowerpetals and the base of the stamineal tube. Fig. B. a. The same flower with all the petals re-moved, showing the united stamens, 5 of which haveshed the pollen and crinkled down. b. The stamens asthey appear In a bud. The shorter stamens of the budbecome the longer stamens of the flower, c. Anther ofa long stamen in a magnified, d. Anther of a longstamen in b (short in a) magnified. order, the species within the United States numbering about 150, nearly all of whichbelong west of the Rocky Mountains. We have about 25 kinds of clover; only 3 or 4species are natives of the East. Hosackia, n
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