. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flozvcr. 93 tils (Fig. 4V) of the pea are also quite different in form from those of the cherrj'. The varietj' of form in the parts of the flowers of different species is almost infinite. 147. Certain Parts of the Flower are often Wanting. The flowers of the maple have no corolla; those of the wil- low have neither calyx nor corolla; certain flowers of the pumpkin, Indian corn and manj' other plants have no stamens, while other flow- ers of the
. Principles of plant culture : an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flozvcr. 93 tils (Fig. 4V) of the pea are also quite different in form from those of the cherrj'. The varietj' of form in the parts of the flowers of different species is almost infinite. 147. Certain Parts of the Flower are often Wanting. The flowers of the maple have no corolla; those of the wil- low have neither calyx nor corolla; certain flowers of the pumpkin, Indian corn and manj' other plants have no stamens, while other flow- ers of the same species have no pistils (154). In many varieties of the American plum (Primus Americana) the pistil is often 148. Composite (com- pos'-ite) Flowers* are made up of several individual flow- FiG. 4S Fig. 46. Stamens (st) and pistils of tlie pea, Pisum sativum. Fig. 47. Pistil of same alone. (After ) ers in the same flow- er-head. The sun- flower (Fig. 48) is a familiar example of a composite flower. One of the separate flowers is shown in Fig. 49. At the outer edge of the flower head, is a row of individual flow- ers, each of which * The plants having composite flowers form an extensive family in botany called CoviposUte,. 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 Goff, E. S. (Emmett Stull), 1852-1902. Madison, Wis. : E. S. Goff
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