. 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; Botany. POrULAK FLORA. 123 9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACE^. Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flower* 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 f
. 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; Botany. POrULAK FLORA. 123 9. FUMITORY FAMILY. Order FUMARIACE^. Tender herbs with a colorless juice, compound alternate leaves, and irregular flower* 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 antiiers 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 ^M V^'li *^^S^^^^"^^Aa °^ each set is two-celled; the side '"^ ^^ ' *â â ' 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
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