Popular Botany the Living Plant From Seed to Fruit volume 1
Popular Botany the Living Plant From Seed to Fruit volume 1
Alfred E Alfred Ernest Knight
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This fluid, though clear 7 Photo by] FIG. 74. CELANDINE (Chelidonium majus). IE. Step. A plant that must not be confused with the Lesser Celandine, which is not related. The Celandine is a member of the Poppy family. Its sap is milky but of a yellow colour. EUROPE and W. ASIA. 50 HUTCHINSON'S POPULAR BOTANY while in the uninjured tissues, instantly becomes turbid on exposure to the atmosphere. The colour of the latex is usually milk-white ; but yellow, red, and, in rare cases, blue milk-saps ar...e met with. The microscope shows that it consists of a colourless fluid wherein float myriads of minute globules, which give the sap its opaque appearance. The Dandelion (Taraxacum ofiicinale) and Celandine (Chelidonium majus) are familiar instances of latex- yielding plants. The latter exudes a bright yellow juice if the leaf or stalk be broken. Lettuces, again, when allowed to run up to flower, yield a white milky fluid ; and both caout- chouc (indiarubber) and the opium of commerce are simply the dried juices of two world- known plants; caoutchouc being obtained from Hevea brasiliensis, a tall tree of tropical America, and other trees, and opium from the large Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum}.
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