ClassificatioJt of Plants 



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or at the base 2-5-celled. Styles 2-5. Ovules 2-many-seeded. 

 Placentation, free central. Flowers arranged definitely. Cap- 

 sule opening by teeth. 



Herbs with opposite, usually simple leaves, often stipulate. 

 Stem often swollen at the nodes. Carnations belong to this 

 order. 



The order consists of honey-forming plants of two groups, one being 

 polysepalous for short-tongued insects, the other having a gamosepalous 

 calyx in which honey can be reached only by long-tongued butterflies and 

 moths. 



I- A. Calyx gamose- 



palous. Ovary raised 

 on a stalk (gynophore). 



Silene.— Calyx rib- 

 bed. Petals on long 

 claws, the limb entire or 

 divided. The flower- 

 stalk is continued a 

 node between the peri- 

 anth and the other parts 

 of the flower. This node 



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Fig. "zix.—Dianthus caryophylliis. I. Portion of plant (natural size). II. Stamens 

 (magnified). (From Thome and Bennett's " Structural and Physiological Botany.") 



is called a gynophore. Stamens 10. Styles 3, corresponding 

 to the number of carpels. 



Small herbs often with sticky hairs, which guard the nectar from 

 pilferers. On account of the small seeds, it is called the gunpowder plant. 

 Children make pretty necklaces of the smooth shiny fruits. 



