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UNION OF PAUTS. 



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toothed or dentate, wlicn only the tips arc scparafo as short j)f)ints 

 entire, when llie bordt-r is even, witliout points or notclies, us in the 



common Morning-Glory, and very nearly so in Fi<;. 203 ; and po 

 on; — the terms being just the same as tliose applied to leaves and 

 all other fiat bodies, and illustrated in Lessons 8 and 9. 



264. . There is a set of terms applied particularly to calyxes, 

 corollas, or other such bo«lies of one j)iece, to express their general 

 shape, which we see is very various. The following are some of 

 the principal : — 



Wheel-shaped, or rotate ; when spreading out at once, without a 

 tube or with a very short one, something in the shape of a wheel 

 or of its diverging spokes, as in tl»e corolla of the Potato and Bitter- 

 sweet (Fig. 204, 205). 



Salver-shaped, or salver-form ; when a flat-spreading border is 

 raised on a narrow tube, from which it diverges at right angles. 



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like the salver represented in old pictures, with a slender handle 

 beneath. The corolla of th(; Phlox (Fig. 208) and of the Cypress- 

 Vine (Fig. 202) arc of this sort. 



FIG. 200. Corolla of ."oapwort (ilio same in Pinko, &f.\ of Ssoparatp, long-cIawed pctali. 



FIG. 301. Flower of Uilia or Iponiopsiit coronopirolia ; Ilie parts answering to the clawt 

 of iho [Ktals iif iho last fljiiirc here all united into a tube. 



FK;. -JOi F-'liiwcr of Iho C'ypross-Vino ; the petals a lilllp farther united into a fivc-lobcJ 

 •prradinc border. 



V\C.. 0().1. Fliiwrr of the <nnall Pr.irlrt Moriiiiic-OI(irv, the five [letaN it is roinprwed of 

 pcrforlly uiiilei into a tniniiirl-sliaped tul>e, u illi llip K|ircadin|! iMirder nearly oven (or entire). 



FK;. afM. Wliprl-slia|H-d and flve-parteil rondla i>f nitlrr»wpet (Solanum Dulcamara). 



FIG. aO.\ Wheel clinpod and fivo-rlefl rondia j>f the roniinon Potato. 



FIG. 206. Almost entire and v»ry open licll-sliaixMl condia of a Ground Cherry (PtayMlw) 

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