Lessons in Elementary Botany for Secondary Schools;
Lessons in Elementary Botany for Secondary Schools;
Thomas H Thomas Huston Macbride
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— Flowers apetalous, yellow ; leaves simple. Genus 9. Aquilegia. — Flowers complete; petals each with spur; flowert regular. Genus 10. Delphinium. — Flowers complete, irregular, upper sepal spurred. Genus 11. Pceonia. — Flowers large, mostly double by cultivation ; pistils imbedded in fleshy disk. b. Fruits berries. Genus 12. Actcea. — Flowers in short racemes. Expand this outline by adding other characters in which the plants before you differ. III. Distribution and Economic Importance. This o...rder contains about five hundred species of plants, most of them in temperate and cold regions. Most of the plants possess an acrid juice, which is sometimes poisonous. Many of the species were formerly used in medicine. 132 ELEMENTARY BOTANY, but Aconite andy Hellebore are the only important ones now used by physicians. Many ornamental plants commonly cultivated in gardens belong to this order. Among these may be mentioned the Columbines {Aquilegia), Virgin' s-bower {Clematis), Larkspur {Delphinium), Love-in-a-mist {Ni- gella), Peony {Pceonia), Globeflower {Trollius), etc.
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