This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of this family are called Papilionaceous (L. papilio = a butterfly), but they form part of a very large order, all the plants of which bear pods like the pea, and the order is therefore called Leguminosae (Fr. ligume = a pod), or leguminous plants. Here you will find ten stamens, nine of them being joined into a tube ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...of this family are called Papilionaceous (L. papilio = a butterfly), but they form part of a very large order, all the plants of which bear pods like the pea, and the order is therefore called Leguminosae (Fr. ligume = a pod), or leguminous plants. Here you will find ten stamens, nine of them being joined into a tube around the pistil. The pistil consists of one cell containing several ovules, and will afterwards enlarge into the pea pod with its peas. In clover and lucerne a large number of flowers like those of the pea, each having its stamens and pistil, are crowded together into a head forming a sort of compound flower. Next take a flower of wheat, barley, oat, or grass. To find this you must look when the ears are quite green, and you will see many little yellow bodies hanging out of each ear: these are the stamens. An ear of wheat consists of several rows of small flowers arranged upon a central stalk. Try and get out one of these flowers separately, and you will find it to be something like Fig. 19. Here, instead of the coloured leaves seen in the turnip and in the pea, the flower is inclosed in chaffy scales. Inside these are three stamens with weak Fig. 19. stalks and hanging heads, surrounding the pistil, which contains only one ovule or young seed. At the top of the pistil are two feathery styles, which catch the pollen from the stamens, and pass it down into the pistil. Fertilization by Insects. If you watch a field of beans or peas when in flower you will probably see numbers of bees and other insects flying about from flower to flower in search of the honey which they find at the bottom of each. In entering to reach this honey the bees brush against the stamens, and get covered with the pollen. This they carry away with them to the next flower...
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