. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 123 9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACEM. Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flowers with only two small scale-like sepals, a flattened and closed corolla of 4 petals more or less grown together, the two outside ones larger with small spreading tips, the two inner small and with spoon-shaped tips stick- ing together face to face over the anthers and stigma: stamens on the receptacle, 6 in two sets or bundles, one before each of the larger petals, or all joined in one tube below. The
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 123 9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACEM. Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flowers with only two small scale-like sepals, a flattened and closed corolla of 4 petals more or less grown together, the two outside ones larger with small spreading tips, the two inner small and with spoon-shaped tips stick- ing together face to face over the anthers and stigma: stamens on the receptacle, 6 in two sets or bundles, one before each of the larger petals, or all joined in one tube below. The middle anther of each set is two-celled; the side ones only one-celled. Pistil one, in the manner of the Poppy fam- ily. Pod one-celled. Bitterish, harmless plants, with singularly shaped flowers, some of them handsome. We have four gen- era, two of them of only one species 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York, Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & co. ; Chicago, S. C. Griggs & co.
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