. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. FI'»"~™!ai!ll.,ia. l!L'-"i!!'i", I FLOWKHS: THi:iK FORMS AND KINPS. 69. 109 IlyilraM'jca. mens only, and others perfect, liMviri;^' both stamens and pistils, eitlier on tho or on different individii;ils. Thf Red Maplu is a very ^ood rase of this kiu<l; the two or three sorts of flowers look- ing very dilVer- ently when they apjioar in early spriii&quo
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. FI'»"~™!ai!ll.,ia. l!L'-"i!!'i", I FLOWKHS: THi:iK FORMS AND KINPS. 69. 109 IlyilraM'jca. mens only, and others perfect, liMviri;^' both stamens and pistils, eitlier on tho or on different individii;ils. Thf Red Maplu is a very ^ood rase of this kiu<l; the two or three sorts of flowers look- ing very dilVer- ently when they apjioar in early spriii",'; those of one tree havin*,' lonu red stamens and no <;ood pis- til, thoso of otlipr trees having con- spicuous pistils, in some blossoms with no goo^ sta- mens at all, in others with shoit ones. There are also what are called ahortiv or 206. Neutral Flowers, having neither stamens nor pistils, and so good for nothing except for sliow. Jn the Snowbull of the gardens and in richly cultivated Ilydran- geas all tlie Idossoms are neutral, and no fruit is formed. Even in the wild state of these shrubs, some of the' blossoms aroinid tho margin of the cluster are neutral (as in the Wild Hydrangea, Fig. 169), consisting only of three or four tlower-leaves, very nuich lai-ger than the small perfect ilowers which make up the rest of the cluster. Also what the gardener calls Donhlc Flniroy,^, when full, are neutral, as in doid)le Eoses and Buttercups. These are blossoms which by cultivation have all their stamens and pistils changed into petals, 207. A Symmetrical Flower is one which has an equal number of parts of each kind or in each set or row. This is so in the 8tonecrop (Fig. 153), which has five sepals in the calyx, five petals in the corolla, ten stamens (that is, two sets of stamens of five each), and five pistils. Or often it hos flowers with four sepals, and then there are oidy four. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have be
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