Botany for young people and common schools by Gray Asa 1810-1888

Author:Gray, Asa, 1810-1888
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Botany
Publisher: New York, Cincinnati [etc.] American book company
Published: 1900-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

277. Pod of Celandine opening. 278. Frame of the same, turned flatwise, and seeds still on it.

27S 279. Flower-bud, &c. of Eschscholtiia. 28C. The cap-shaped calyx fallen oflf. 281. The pod.

Petals 4, crumpled or plaited in the bud, which nods before opening (except in the Prickly-Poppy). Ovary and pod incompletely several-celled, by plates or placentas projecting from the walls and covered with numberless seeds. Stigmas making a flat sessile cap. Pod hard, opening by pores under the edge of the cap of stigmas, {Papaver) * Poppy.

Ovary and pod strictly one-celled, opening by valves, and leaving the placentas as a slender frame between them. Flowers yellow, rarely white. Pod and leaves prickly. Style none: stigmas 4 or 6, (Argemone) Prickly-Poppy.

Pod bristly. Style present: stigmas 3 or 4, (Styldphorum) Celandine-Poppy.

Pod smooth, slender (Fig. 277): stigmas 2, ( Chelidbnium) Celandine.

Ovary and long narrow pod 2-celled by a thick partition in which the seeds are embedded; stigma 2-horned, (Glaucium) * Horn-Poppy. Petals not crumpled in the bud, which does not nod.

Petals 8 to 12, narrow, white. Pod.oblong. Juice orange-red, (Sanguinaria) Bloodroot.

Petals 4, broad, yellow. Sepals united into a pointed cap which falls off as a lid (Fig. 280, 281). Eeceptacle or end of the flower-stalk expanded and top-shaped. Stigmas 3 to 7, slender, unequal. Pod many-ribbed. Juice watery, colorless, but strong-scented, * Eschscholtzia.

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