PARTS OP THE FLOWER. 



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Pig. 53. 



termed Floral Leaves ; those 

 situated below a flower or flowers 

 Hypsophyllary Leaves or Bracts; 

 and those bearing minute fructifi- 

 cations Spore-bearing Leaves. 

 (See Fig. 17.) 



Reproductive 

 modified 



LEAVES 



Floral Leaves. 

 Hypsophyllary Leaves. 

 Spore-bearing Leaves. 



FLORAL LEAVES. 

 The Floral Leaves are usually- 

 clustered into a group which is 

 termed a Flower. 



PARTS OF THE FLOWER. 

 A fully organized flower, as in 

 the Kabura (Fig. 54) and Sakura 

 (Fig. 55), consists of four different series of floral leaves : 

 the outermost whorl called the Calyx is composed of flat- 



Fig. 53. — Inflorescence of 

 the Tennansho (Arisaema 

 japonicum) enclosed in a 

 scattered bract. 



Pig. 54. 



Pig. 55. 



Pig. 54. — Flower of the Kabura 

 (Brassica campestris). 



Pig. 55. — Flower of the 

 Sakura cut open. 



