. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 121 2. Leaves and flowers from rootstocks like the last. Sepals 5 or 6, roimdefl, partly petal- like and yellow. Within these a mass of small, square-topped bodies looking like and not much larger than the stamens, but really answering to petals; and above them the real stamens in great numbers, all under the many-celled and flat-topped pistil, {Nupliai-) Yellow Poxd-
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 121 2. Leaves and flowers from rootstocks like the last. Sepals 5 or 6, roimdefl, partly petal- like and yellow. Within these a mass of small, square-topped bodies looking like and not much larger than the stamens, but really answering to petals; and above them the real stamens in great numbers, all under the many-celled and flat-topped pistil, {Nupliai-) Yellow Poxd-Lilt. 3. Leaves and small dull-purple flowers from a slender stem rising in the water; the oval leaves attached by the middle of the under side (centrally peltate). Sepals and petals narrow, each 4, and 12 to 18 stamens, all under the 4 to 16 separate and few-?eeded pistils, {Bras'enin) WAXEnsTiiEUJ. 4. Sepals and petals (alike in many ranks) and stamens many, all falling off early, all un- der the pistils, which are 12 or more in mimber and separately embedded in the flat upper face of an enlarged top-shaped receptacle. In fruit they are round and eat- able nuts (Fig. 273). Leaves very large (1° or 2° broad), round, attached by the middle underneath, cupped, rising out of the water, as do the great greenish- yellow flowers also, on long stalks. Common W. &; S. (Ndumbium) XELUMca 7. SIDSSADDLE-FLOWEE, FAMILY. Order r>o_2:-plants Avitli liollow, pitclier-sliaped or trumpet-sliapecl leaves, all from the root, makin^f the curious jrenus SidesadtIle»FIower. Snvracenia. Sepals 5, colored, persistent; and below the calvx are 3 small bractlets. Petals 5, fiddle-shaped, curved inwards. Stamens veiy many, on the receptacle. Style with a broad and 5-angled umbrella-shaped top, covering the 5-cclIed ovary and the stamens. Pod many-seeded. Flower single, large, nodding on the summit of a long scape. 1. PuHi'LE Sidesaddle-Floaveit, or Pitchek-Plaxt. Petals deep p
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