. The botany of crop plants : a text and reference book. Botany, Economic. 544 BOTANY OF CROP PLANTS berry, or Vaccinium mcmhranaceum, the thin-leaved bil- berry), or in racemes (as in Vaccinium virgatum, southern , black huckleberry, or Vaccinium oxycoccus, the European cranberry). The flower pedicels are usually bracted. The small flowers are perfect, sympetalous, and usu- k y -^.j^ 'to/ ally actinomorphic (Fig. 224). The calyx \^^'^^y (Fig- 225) forms a tube, grown fast to the ovary, the hmb (free portion) four- to five-lobed or four- to five-cleft, and either persistent or deciduous. The s
. The botany of crop plants : a text and reference book. Botany, Economic. 544 BOTANY OF CROP PLANTS berry, or Vaccinium mcmhranaceum, the thin-leaved bil- berry), or in racemes (as in Vaccinium virgatum, southern , black huckleberry, or Vaccinium oxycoccus, the European cranberry). The flower pedicels are usually bracted. The small flowers are perfect, sympetalous, and usu- k y -^.j^ 'to/ ally actinomorphic (Fig. 224). The calyx \^^'^^y (Fig- 225) forms a tube, grown fast to the ovary, the hmb (free portion) four- to five-lobed or four- to five-cleft, and either persistent or deciduous. The sympetalous corolla is divided into four or five lobes or very rarely into nearly separate petals, as in the cran- berries. The corolla may be either globe-shaped, bell- shaped, urn-shaped, or tubular. There are twice as many terminal anther •orolla Fig. 224.—Floral diagram of Vaccin- 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 Robbins, Wilfred William, 1884-1952. Philadelphia : P. Blakiston's Son
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