. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. GERANIACE^E—SAPINDACE^E 375. 5. IMPATIENS. Touch-me-not. Jewel-weed. Soft or succulent tender herbs with simple alternate or opposite leaves and very irregular flowers: sepals 3 to 5, usually 4, one of them produced into a large curving spur; petals apparently 2, but each consisting of a united pair; stamens 5: fruit 5-valved, elastically discharging the seeds (whence the names "Ini- patiens" and "touch-me-not"). I. Balsamina, Linn. Garden balsam. Erect and stout, 1-2Y2 f
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. GERANIACE^E—SAPINDACE^E 375. 5. IMPATIENS. Touch-me-not. Jewel-weed. Soft or succulent tender herbs with simple alternate or opposite leaves and very irregular flowers: sepals 3 to 5, usually 4, one of them produced into a large curving spur; petals apparently 2, but each consisting of a united pair; stamens 5: fruit 5-valved, elastically discharging the seeds (whence the names "Ini- patiens" and "touch-me-not"). I. Balsamina, Linn. Garden balsam. Erect and stout, 1-2Y2 ft.: leaves lanceolate, toothed: flowers in the axils, of many colors, often full double. I. biflora, Walt. (/. fulva, Nutt.). Orange jewel-weed. T ' , .. , ' „ . , . Impatiens biflora. Fig. 521. I all branching plant (2-4 ft.) with alternate oval or long-oval blunt-toothed long-stalked leaves: flowers Y\ in. long, horizontal and hanging, orange-yellow with a red-spotted lower lip, the upper lip less spotted and of one piece, the 2 green sepals at the apex of the pedicel closely appressed to the tube, the tail of the spur curled under the spur: pod opening elastically when ripe, throwing the seeds (the 5 valves quickly curling from above down- wards). Common in swales. I. pallida, Nutt. (I. aiirea, Muhl.). Yellow jewel-weed. Fig. 522. Leaves usually stronger-toothed, the teeth usu- ally ending in sharp points: flowers 1 in. long and much broader than those of /. biflora, clear yellow, the upper lip of two parts, the lower also of 2 parts and nearly hori- zontal, the 2 sepals at apex of pedicel large and not closely 522. appressed, tail shorter: pods as in the other. Less common Impatiens pallida, than the other, but often growing with 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 Bailey, L. H. (Lib
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