. 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. 1C6 POrULAR FLORA. there are five chaffy and ponited scales (Fig. 409). But more conimonly the pappus con- sists of bristles, or downy hairs (as its name denotes). Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afford most familiar examples of such a hairy or downy pappus; those of Thistles, &c. in autumn sailing about in every breeze. Fig. 411 shows the very soft downy pappus of
. 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. 1C6 POrULAR FLORA. there are five chaffy and ponited scales (Fig. 409). But more conimonly the pappus con- sists of bristles, or downy hairs (as its name denotes). Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afford most familiar examples of such a hairy or downy pappus; those of Thistles, &c. in autumn sailing about in every breeze. Fig. 411 shows the very soft downy pappus of Sow- Thistle. Fig. 410, that of the Dandelion; this is raised upon a long beak to the akcne, which lengthens greatly after flowering. This family contains about an eighth or tenth part of all Flowering plants. But it is too diffi- 404. Half of a heaii of flowers of Coreopsis. cult for tlic bcginncr. So we hcrc barcly men- tion a few of the common plants which belong to Ray-flower, 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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