. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada, and more especially of the province of Ontario : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Botany; Plants. sepals of Sweet- Brier are not en- tirely distinct; their lower halves cohere to form a tube, and the ca- lyx is therefore gamosepaloup. The corolla con- sists of five sepa- rate petals of the same size and shape, and is therefore both regular and poly- Fig. 43. petalous. The Siemens are very numerous, and separate fi'om each other. As in the Pea and the Willow-herb, so in this flower they will be found to be attached io fLe calyx. They are,
. The commonly occuring wild plants of Canada, and more especially of the province of Ontario : a flora for the use of beginners. Botany; Botany; Plants. sepals of Sweet- Brier are not en- tirely distinct; their lower halves cohere to form a tube, and the ca- lyx is therefore gamosepaloup. The corolla con- sists of five sepa- rate petals of the same size and shape, and is therefore both regular and poly- Fig. 43. petalous. The Siemens are very numerous, and separate fi'om each other. As in the Pea and the Willow-herb, so in this flower they will be found to be attached io fLe calyx. They are, therefore, perigyripMS. 44. To understand the construction of the pistil, ycu must make a vertical section through the roundish green mass which you will find on the under side of the flower. You will then have presented to you some such appearance as that in Fig. 44. The green mass, you will observe, is hollow. Its outer covering is simply the con- tinuation of the calyx-tube. The Fig. 44. lining of this cahjx-tuhe is tlie recejitdcle of the fiouer ; to it are attached the separate carpels which togethei. 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 Spotton, H. B. (Henry Byron), 1844-1933. Toronto : W. J. Gage
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