. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 97. our common North American representative of the family {Phytolacca decandra), furnish a most pala- table dish when the young shoots are boiled like Aspara- gus. The berries yield a dark red dye. Family Aizoaceae. Carpet- weed Family. Consists of 22 genera and about 500 species, natives chiefly of warm regions. They are nearly all herbs of in- significant aspect, usually pros- trate and difiEusely branched, with opposite or whorled leaves and small perfect flowers, mostly destitute of petals. The ovary is
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 97. our common North American representative of the family {Phytolacca decandra), furnish a most pala- table dish when the young shoots are boiled like Aspara- gus. The berries yield a dark red dye. Family Aizoaceae. Carpet- weed Family. Consists of 22 genera and about 500 species, natives chiefly of warm regions. They are nearly all herbs of in- significant aspect, usually pros- trate and difiEusely branched, with opposite or whorled leaves and small perfect flowers, mostly destitute of petals. The ovary is free from' the calyx and sev- eral-celled, becoming a capsule in fruit, The common carpet- Fig. so. The carpetweed (^i/o/fc^^o j-^rfowy/o/a) ^eed (Molluqo verticillata) is showing enlarged flower and section of fruit. After , . V Britton & Brown, ni. Fl. Northeast. U. S. ' Snown m Fig. 80. StSUVlUm Poriulacastrum, the sea purslane, is a familiar plant along the south- em seacoast. By far the largest genus is Mesembryanthemum, vari- ous species of which are cultivated in gardens, M. crystallinum being the well known " ice ; It is a curious feature of distribution that two species of this genus oc- cur on the islands off the coast of California, while the remainder are confined almost exclusively to the Old World. The family is also known by the name Ficoideae. Family Portulacaceae. Por- tulaca Family. Contains about 20 genera and 175 species, largely American, and always showing an aflSnity for dry and arid regions, their succulent and fleshy herbage enabling them to withstand any amount of drought. They are. 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 Pollard, Charles Louis, 1872-. Washington, D. C. , The Plant World Co
Size: 1469px × 1700px
Photo credit: © The Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectplants, bookyear1900
