Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.

  • Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.
Date:
1881
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * Fruit (/lobular, oblonr/ or clarnti:, opening hij pores; s/ir/mas radiant. 1. Papaver. Pet. 4. Stam. many. StijleO. Stigmas—20, radiant on aflnttish disk. Caps, opening- by pores beneath the stigma. Placentas like dissepiments. 2. IMeconopsis. Pet. 4. Stam. many. Style short. Stigmas 4—0, radiant,//-ee. Caps, obovate, opening by pores be- neath the style. Placentas filiform. ** Fruit linear, opening by valves ; stigmas 2—4. 3. PtOEiiEiiiA. Pet. 4. Stam. many. Stigmas 2—4, sessile, radiant. Caps. 2—A-valced, 1-celled ; placentas distinct. Seeds not cre.sted. 4. Glaucium. Pet. 4. Stam. many. Stigmas 2, sessile. Caps. '2-valved ; placentas connected by a spongy dissepiment. Seeds not crested.—A maritime plant with yellow flowers. 5. C'HELiDONiuJr. Pet. 4. Stam. manj'. Stigmas 2. Caps. 2-valved, 1-celled ; placentas distinct. Seeds crested. 1. Papa'ver Linn. Poppy. tJ- P. Argemdne (L.); filaments dilated upwards, caps, cla- vate liiapid witli erect bristles, stem leafy many-flowered, 1. bi- pinuatitid.—F. B. (!4.'j. 1{. iii. f. 447''3.—St. usually about 1 ft. high. Fl. small. VvX. distinct, fugacious, pale red, black at the base. Uristles sometimes spreading.—In corn-lields. A. VJ. VII. E.S.I. t2. P. hyli'ridum (L.) ; filaments dilated upwards, caps, ronndig ovoid Inspid with spreading bristles, stem leafy many-dowered, 1. bipinnatifid.—7?. B. It. iii. f. 4470.—Sap milky. Fl. small. Pet. purplish, often with a dark spot at the base.—Sandy lields, rare. A. VI. VII. ]-]. I. to. P. llhni'as ■ filnmcnts subu.late, caps, roundly obovate vnthn}il hri^lles, stem bristlv many-llowin'od, i. ])innafiiid cut.— E. B. (Ur,. II, iii. f, 447().^p^l. |.„.n.,._ ].,,|^ ^1,,,,^, seavlet, often nearly black at the base. I'eduncles with sjjrcading hairs, or {ji. slrigosuni I5(enningh.) wilii adprcssed hairs.—In arable fields, common. A. VI. VII. Corn Jlose. I'l. S. I. t4. /'. diibiunt (fy.) ; filiuncnts subuliitr, ra/is. r/iivafe narrou-- iiig ijrudaally from tiic top throughout without h)istles, .s/zV/.-