. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. 122 POPULAR FLORA. 8. POPFT FAMILY. Order PAPAVERACEJR. Herbs with a milk-white, yollow, or reddish juice (colorless in Eschscholtzia), which la bitter or acrid and poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having only 2 (rarely S) sopaU, which fall when the blossom opens, but 4 (or in one case 8 or 12) petals, which fall early. Sta- mens many, on the
. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. 122 POPULAR FLORA. 8. POPFT FAMILY. Order PAPAVERACEJR. Herbs with a milk-white, yollow, or reddish juice (colorless in Eschscholtzia), which la bitter or acrid and poisonous, alternate leaves, and flowers remarkable for having only 2 (rarely S) sopaU, which fall when the blossom opens, but 4 (or in one case 8 or 12) petals, which fall early. Sta- mens many, on the re- ceptacle. Pistil one, compound, butalmost al- ways one-celled, many- seeded, the seeds borne on the walls or on pro- jections from them (pa- rietal). Eschscholtzia is remarkable for its calyx shaped like a pointed cap or a candle-extin- guisher. —In most cases we have only one spe- cies of each 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. Toronto : A. Miller
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