KEY TO PLATE LV 



No. I. Milk wort 



Grassy Stitch wort 



vulgaris, L.) (Stellaria, graiiiinta, L.) 



No. 3. Pretty St. John's Wort 



a, 8 stamens, with connate fil- 

 aments forming split sheath. 

 6, Pistil, style, and stigma. 

 c, Flower, with 2 petaloid 

 inner sepals, and petals, 2 

 outer united with lower 

 hooded one, and combined 

 with stamina! sheath. </, 

 Upper part of plant with 

 alternate stem-leaves and 

 flowers in racen.r. 



a, Flower, with gaunosepa/jy 



sepals. f>, Transverse section 

 of capsule, twith 3 carpels, 

 opening by septa, c, Upper 



(Hypericum pulchrum, L.) 



*, Pistil,' with 3 stigmas, 



lous calyx, and capsule open- in calyx,, with 5 glandular 



ing above by teeth. b, 

 Upper part of plant with 

 stem-leaves, in opposite pairs, 



and inflorescence, with flow part of ptent' with opposite 



ers in dichotomous cynu, leaves and flowers in ter- 



with 5 2-fid petals, alternate rainal and axillary cymes, 



with 5 sepals, 10 stamens showing petals twisted in 



bud, 5, distinct, with stamens 

 in bundles, with pistil and 

 stigraas. 



and pistil 



( Ulex cufopceus, L.) 



, Young furze plant, with 

 cotyledons, and early 3-foliate 

 leaves, later transformed 

 into spines. />, Branch, with 

 sgines : and papilionaceous 

 flowers, showing standar^ \X 

 wing ,, and Wcel, and ffi*^^- 

 fertilized, showing the stigtna,^ 

 and column of stamens. 



X-' a, Flower, with calyx, 



scpaioits*. with unequal t^, 

 corolla reftraved. to show 

 stamens, xin column, with 

 united filaments and stigma, 

 with incurved style. />, L 

 gume, with! ^^^/V * 

 (style), i, Seed. / d/lto* 

 with 3-foliate leaves, 

 flowers, one pollinated, : 

 ing papilionaceous coroll^ 

 with standard, wings, and 

 keel, and within the stamens 

 w*ith: versatile aaiheifs and 



(Potenlilla erect*, HampeJ 



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rt ,^ection of d.sk, and pistils 

 witrt-long i -styles, on convex 

 receptacle. /-, Section of 

 achene. .'c, Roctsto9k, woody, 

 with roots, and leaf-bases. 

 ~yi, Upper part of plant with 

 ' sessile 3- foliolate^ leave's, a.nd 

 flowers in cyme, \vtth dis- 

 tinct petals, ami sepals. al- 

 ternating, also stamens. 







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