. Principles of plant culture; an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flower. 97. Fig. 50. Cross-section of flower-head of sun- flower, Hclianthus annuun. Reduced. The flor- ets appear closely crowded in the center of the head. familiar example of a composite flower. One of the separate flowers is shown in Fig. 51. At the outer edge of the flower-head, is a row of individ- ual flowers, each of which has a long, yellow, petal-like appendage (Fig. 52), called a ray. The flowers bearing rays are called ray- flowers.
. Principles of plant culture; an elementary treatise designed as a text-book for beginners in agriculture and horticulture. Horticulture; Botany. The Flower. 97. Fig. 50. Cross-section of flower-head of sun- flower, Hclianthus annuun. Reduced. The flor- ets appear closely crowded in the center of the head. familiar example of a composite flower. One of the separate flowers is shown in Fig. 51. At the outer edge of the flower-head, is a row of individ- ual flowers, each of which has a long, yellow, petal-like appendage (Fig. 52), called a ray. The flowers bearing rays are called ray- flowers. Some com- posite flowers a s the tansy* are with- out ray-flowers. 149. The Flowers of the Grass Family f to which the cereals belong, as well as corn, sorghum, sugar cane etc., are quite different from those of most other plants. In this family, the flowers are arranged in little groups, each of which is called a spike- let. What we call a head of wheat is made up of a number of spikelets, one of which is shown in Fig. 53. Fig. 54 shows the spikelet dissected. The two scale-like parts at the base, g. g., are called glumes. The similar pair above, tipped with a bristle (the awn or beard) are called the lower or outer pales or palets (pa'- lets) or flowering glumes — to distinguish them from the * Tanacetum vulgare. t 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 Goff, E. S. (Emmett Stull), 1852-1902. Madison, Wis. , The Author
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