. A popular California flora, or, Manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of flowering plants growing in central California, and westward to the ocean. With illustrated introductory lessons, especially adapted to the Pacific coast. ^^. ^ Fig. A. Clariia elegans; a, in-ferior, sessile ovarj- of the axil-laryflower. Fig. B. Boisduvaliadensiflora; f, inferior ovary, ses-sile in the axil of a brjct. Capsule of Godetia; h, crosssection of the same. Fig. panicnlalum; h, in-ferior ovary; /, a grown capsule;g, tube of calyx above the ovary;e, one of the bifid petals;

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. A popular California flora, or, Manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of flowering plants growing in central California, and westward to the ocean. With illustrated introductory lessons, especially adapted to the Pacific coast. ^^. ^ Fig. A. Clariia elegans; a, in-ferior, sessile ovarj- of the axil-laryflower. Fig. B. Boisduvaliadensiflora; f, inferior ovary, ses-sile in the axil of a brjct. Capsule of Godetia; h, crosssection of the same. Fig. panicnlalum; h, in-ferior ovary; /, a grown capsule;g, tube of calyx above the ovary;e, one of the bifid petals; i, onecf the seeds bearing a tuft ofsilken hairs. The figure on the right rep-resents Cardamine paucisecta,a pod of which is represented ate on the opposite page. scription of which (p. 60) is satisfactory. Our plant is acaulescent or stemless; therefore,according to the book, the calyx tube is filiform (slender) above the underground being verified by examination, there can be little doubt that the plant is (Enotheraovata. You now see that the flowers, instead of growing upon scapes, are sessile uponthe end of a root-stock. The apparent flower stem is the slender calyx tube and styleconsolidated. When you plucked the flower, the o

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