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BOTANY FOR BEGINNERS 



CHAP. 



Habit. A perennial herb with an underground bulb, narrow- 

 radical leaves, and a raceme of sweet-smelling blue flowers. 



Q Root. Adventitious roots are given off 



from the lower surface of the bulb. 

 Stem. An underground bulb (p. 23). 

 Leaves. Radical, simple, narrow, entire, 

 green. 



Inflorescence. Indefinite, raceme. 

 Bracts. Bracteate, blue, one at the base 

 of each pedicle. 



Flower.- --Complete, actinomorphic. bell- 

 shaped, blue. 



Perianth. Gamophyllous (base only), 6 

 lobed, inferior. 



Andracium. Free, 6, in two series, epipetalous, filament 

 blue, anther 2-lobed, versatile. 



FIG. 267. Floral 

 diagram. 



FIG. 268. Flower of White Lily. 



FIG. 269. Longitudinal section of 

 flower of White Lily. 



Gyncetium Syncarpous, carpels 3, superior, style long, 

 stigma 3-fid, ovary 3-celled, ovules axile placentation. 



