ROSACEOUS PLANTS. 



35 



Flowers to compare with Great Willow-herb are Fuchsia 

 and Evening Primrose. Either of these will serve as the 

 type if Willow-herb cannot be obtained. 



CHAPTER VI. 



EXAMINATION OF COMMON ROSACEOUS PLANTS SWEET BRIER 

 STRAWBERRY CHERRY CRAB-APPLE RASPBERRY. 



48. Sweet Brier. 



Fig. 43. 



As in the flowers examined in 

 the last chapter, 

 the sepals of Sweet 

 Brier are not en- 

 tirely distinct ; 

 their lower halves 

 cohere to form a 

 tube, and the calyx 

 is therefore gamo- 

 sepalous. 



The corolla con- 

 sists of five sepa- 

 rate petals of the 

 same size and 

 shape, and is there- 

 fore both regular 

 and polype talous. 



The stamens are 



very numerous, and separate from each other. As in the 

 Pea and the Willow-herb, so in this flower they will be 



Fig. 43. Flower and leaves of Sweet Brier, 



