. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. 116 FLOWERING PLANTS style and contains two to many campylotropous o\ailes on a central basal placenta. The fruit is a capsule dehiscing transverse^, or b}' two or three valves. The compressed seeds contain an embr^^o coiled round a mealy perisperm. Portulaca grandiflora is a favourite garden Fig. 55. Portulaca oleracea. A. Upper part of branch bearing flower-buds at apex, X 4. B. Flower in section with base only of sepals and petals indi- cated, X 5. C. Fruit shewing transverse dehiscence, x 3. D. Seed in section, X 12; c, cotvledons;
. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. 116 FLOWERING PLANTS style and contains two to many campylotropous o\ailes on a central basal placenta. The fruit is a capsule dehiscing transverse^, or b}' two or three valves. The compressed seeds contain an embr^^o coiled round a mealy perisperm. Portulaca grandiflora is a favourite garden Fig. 55. Portulaca oleracea. A. Upper part of branch bearing flower-buds at apex, X 4. B. Flower in section with base only of sepals and petals indi- cated, X 5. C. Fruit shewing transverse dehiscence, x 3. D. Seed in section, X 12; c, cotvledons; r, radicle; e, perisperm. E. Floral diagram. (E after Eichler.) Family VII. CARYOPHYLLACEAE Flowers generally bisexual, rarely unisexual by reduction, 5- or 4-merous, with calyx and corolla. Sepals free or united, sometimes scarious, persistent. Corolla rarely absent, often clawed. Stamens 8-10 in two w^horls, or fewer, hj^ogjoious. Receptacle sometimes elongated between the coroUa and stamens. Carpels five, often few^er, united to form a one- celled or incompletely chambered ovary, with two to five styles free or united below; ovules generally numerous, more. 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 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938. Cambridge, University press
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