. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. I'ol'I'LAK KLOKA. 125 2. Leaves and flow* from rootMtocks like the luHt. Sepals sf small, sipiaM' topped liodit-s lonkiiin like Htid not much lar^'t-r than the Htamens, hut rfally ;; to potaU ; and aliove them the real Htamens in great numhers, all under the manycelhd and Mat-topped pistil, (Xu/>fiiir) 3. leaves ami sniidl dull purplf flowers from a
. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. I'ol'I'LAK KLOKA. 125 2. Leaves and flow* from rootMtocks like the luHt. Sepals sf small, sipiaM' topped liodit-s lonkiiin like Htid not much lar^'t-r than the Htamens, hut rfally ;; to potaU ; and aliove them the real Htamens in great numhers, all under the manycelhd and Mat-topped pistil, (Xu/>fiiir) 3. leaves ami sniidl dull purplf flowers from a slender stem rininj,' in the water ; the oval leaves attached hy tiie middle of the under side (centrally peltate). Sepals ami petals narrow, each 4, and 12 to tS stamens, all under the 4 to 16 iieparatc and few-seeded pistils i/iriiMhiia) WatprshiKI.!). 4. Sepals and petals (alike in many ranks) and stiiniens nnmy. all falling,'off early, idl under the pistils, which are u or more in numliei and sepaiately emlirdded in tlie Hat ujjper face of an enlarged top-shaped receptacle. In fruit they are round and eatahle nuts (Fig. 27,^). Leavts very lar;;e (i"' or 2' hrond). round, attiiched hy the middle underneath, cui)]ied, risinj; out of the water, as do the yreat vjreenish- ycllow tlowers also, on long stalks. Common W. and S. (yLluinljiitm) Nell'MDo. lent liud 7. SIDESADDLE-FLOWER FAMILY. '.-K. ]*o;4-pl;uits witli IhiHow, pitclit-T-sliiiped or tniiiipet-sliapetl leave.'*, all t'roiu the roo% making the curious genus Sidesaddle-Flower. Snrvarinia. Sepals 5, coloureil, persistent; and btdow the calyx nre 3 small brac'tlets. I'etals 3, Hiidle-shnped, curved inwards. .Stamens very many, on the receptacle. Style with a broad and 5-aiigled umhrella-shaped top, covering the 5-celled ovary and the stamens. Pod many-seeded. Flower siui^le, large, nodding on the sunmiic of a long scape. 1. I'l HI' , or PlTCHER-PLANT. Petals deep purple, arch
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