Plants -- Identification; Wild flowers -- Great Britain
22. OXALIDACEÆ.--Low herbs, with radical, generally trifoliate leaves;
and axillary, regular flowers. Sepals 5. Petals 5, united at the base.
Stamens 10. Ovary five-celled, with many ovules. (The Wood Sorrel
Family.)
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23. CELASTRACEÆ.--Trees or shrubs, with opposite leaves; and small,
regular flowers in axillary cymes. Sepals and petals usually 4. Stamens
usually 4, alternating with the petals. Carpels 4. Fruit a fleshy
capsule. (Spindle Tree.)
24. RHAMNACEÆ.--Shrubs with simple leaves; small, greenish flowers; and
berry-like fruit. Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 or 5. Stamens opposite
the petals. Ovary superior, three-celled, with one ovule in each cell.
(The Buckthorn Family.)
25. LEGUMINOSÆ.--Herbs or shrubs with alternate, stipuled leaves,
generally pinnate or ternate, often tendrilled; and papilionaceous
(butterfly-like) flowers. Sepals 5, combined. Petals 5, irregular.
Stamens generally 10, all, or nine of them united. Ovary superior. Fruit
a pod. (The Pea Family.)
26. ROSACEÆ.--Trees, shrubs, or herbs with alternate, stipuled leaves;
and conspicuous, regular flowers. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5. Stamens
many. Carpels 1, 2, 5, or many. (The Rose Family.)
27. ONAGRACEÆ.--Herbs with mostly entire, simple, exstipulate leaves;
and conspicuous, regular flowers. Sepals 2 to 4. Petals 2 to 4, twisted
in the bud, or absent. Stamens 2 to 4, or 8. Ovary inferior, with
carpels 1 to 6 (usually 4), many-seeded. (The Willow-herb Family.)
28. HALORAGIACEÆ.--Aquatic herbs with whorled leaves and minute flowers.
Sepals 2 to 4 or absent. Petals 2 to 4 or absent. Stamens 1, 2, 4, or 8.
Ovary inferior. Carpels 1 to 4. (The Mare's-tail Family.)
29. LYTHRACEÆ.--Herbs with opposite or whorled, entire leaves; and
conspicuous, regular flowers. Sepals, and petals 3 to 6. Stamens
generally twice as many as petals. Ovary superior. Carpels 2 to 6. Fruit
a many-seeded capsule. (The Loosestrife Family.)
30. TAMARISCACEÆ.--Shrub with minute, scale-like leaves; and lateral
spikes of small, regular flowers. Sepals and petals 4 or 5. Stamens 4 to
10, on the disc. Styles 3. (The Tamarisk.)
31. CUCURBITACEÆ.--Rough, climbing herb, with tendrilled,
palmately-lobed leaves; greenish, dioecious flowers in axillary
racemes; and scarlet berries. Sepals and petals 5, united. Stamens 3.
Ovary inferior. Carpels 3. (The White Bryony.)
32. SAXIFRAGACEÆ.--Shrubs and herbs with regular flowers. Sepals and
petals 4 or 5. Stamens 4 or 10. Carpels 2 or 4, united. (The Saxifrage
Family.)
33. CRASSULACEÆ.--Succulent herbs with simple leaves; and small,
regular, starry flowers. Sepals, petals, and carpels 3 to 20, usually 5.
Stamens twice as many as the petals. Carpels superior, forming
follicles. (The Stonecrop Family.)
34. ARALIACEÆ.--Climbing shrub with clinging rootlets, evergreen leaves,
umbels of yellowish flowers, and black berries. Sepals, petals, stamens,
carpels, and seeds 5 each. Ovary inferior. (The Ivy.)
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