. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. OP THE CALYX AND COROLLA. 45 times very singular. See these figures. Fig. 114 is the form of the bifid petal of a Cerastium; Fig. 115, the ffower of Mitella, with five pinnatifid petals; Fig. IIT, the flower of Sweet Cicely, with five petals inflected at the point; Fig. 116, fringed, long-clawed petal of Silene stellaria; Fig. 118, many-cleft petal of Mignonette; Fig. 119, rounded, short- clawed petal of Crowfoot, showing its honey scale, or nec- tary, at F
. Leaves and flowers : or, Object lessons in botany with a flora : prepared for beginners in academies and public schools . Botany. OP THE CALYX AND COROLLA. 45 times very singular. See these figures. Fig. 114 is the form of the bifid petal of a Cerastium; Fig. 115, the ffower of Mitella, with five pinnatifid petals; Fig. IIT, the flower of Sweet Cicely, with five petals inflected at the point; Fig. 116, fringed, long-clawed petal of Silene stellaria; Fig. 118, many-cleft petal of Mignonette; Fig. 119, rounded, short- clawed petal of Crowfoot, showing its honey scale, or nec- tary, at Fig. 120. Larkspur, its petals and sepals separated: «, », «, s, «, sepals; a, the upper sepal spurred; o, the petals all united into one, and produced backwards into a spur which is sheathed in spur of the calyx. Fig. 121. Touch-me-not. Fig. 122. Its petals and sepals displayed: p,p, the two double petals; «, s, s, y, the four sepals, y being in the form of a sack, with a spur. 73. A nectary is found also in the petals of Columbine (Fig. 361), Larkspur (Fig. 120), Touch-me-not (Fig. 121), &c., distorting them into grotesque shapes, called spurs. 74. Before us now is the flower of Pink (Fig. 123). The calyx (c) appears as a green tube, with five notches or teeth at the top. It is evident that this is made up of five sepals 73. What is a nectary? What is a spur? 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 Wood, Alphonso, 1810-1881. New York : A. A. Barnes
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