Title: Botany for beginners: an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany
Identifier: botanyforbeginn00phel (find matches)
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs. , 1793-1884
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: New York, Huntington & Savage
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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d Ch XIV.) RECETTACLE. 85 Fig. 59. 341. nth. Spa- di.v, is an assem- blage of flowers grow- ing upon a common receptacle, and sur- rounded by a spalha or sheath, as in the Egyptian lily. 342. At Fig. 59, a, is a representation of the blossom of the Wild turnip, (arum); a, represents the spa- tha, which is erect, sheathing, oblong, convolute at the base, 6, this is compressed above and below the middle ; c represents the spadix, which from its club-shaped appearance, is called claviform (from clar va, a club). 343. At B (Fig. 59) is the spadix divested of the spatha, a is the claviform summit, b a ring of filaments without anthers, c a ring of sessile anthers, d a dense ring of pistillate flowers with sessile stigmas ; each germ produces a one celled globu- lar berry. 344. This is a plant of the class Monoecia, (one house,) be- cause its staminate and pistillate flowers are separate, but yet grow on the same plant; it is in the order Polyandria, because its stamens are numerous. Receptacle. 345. The receptacle is the extremity of the peduncle; at first it supports the flower, and afterwards the fruit. As this is its only use, it may properly be considered in connexion with
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341. Describe the spadix. 342. What does Fig. 59 represent"? 343. What is represented at B. Fig. 59 1 344. Why is the Wild Turnip in the class Moncecia, order Poly- andria'? 345. What is the receptacle 1

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