258 BOTANY 
Coprosma.—Plant dicecious; flower epigynous 
K (4-5),C (4-5) A 4-5 epipetalous, exserted G (2) ; 
ovary two-celled, one ovule in each cell. Fruit a drupe. 
Honeysuckle.—F lower epigynous K (5), C (5) A 5 
epipetalous; G (3) ovary three-celled axile placen- 
tation. 
Campanula.—F lower epigynous K (5) C (5) A (5) 
epipetalous; G (3) ; ovary three-celled with numerous 
ovules in axile placentation. Fruit a capsule. 
QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER VIII. 
1. Describe and compare the leaves, flowers, and fruit of 
the buttercup, columbine, larkspur, and clematis. 
. Compare the flower of the buttercup with that of the 
wallflower, taking first the general structure and then 
each whorl separately. 
3. Compare the gynoecia of the lily, wallflower, pea, and 
rose. 
4. Compare the white clover with the pea. 
5. Compare the gynoecia and fruits of the cherry, raspberry, 
strawberry, apple, hawthorn, rose. 
6. How do the following attract insects:—Pea, lily, iris, 
rose, daisy? What benefits do the insects confer on 
the flower, and how are the insects paid? 
7. What benefit has been conferred by the introduction of 
the humble bee into New Zealand? 
8. What insects have you seen visiting the manuka? How 
have they been attracted? 
9. In parallel columns describe one native and one intro- 
duced plant belonging to the leguminose. Note 
carefully the points of likeness and difference. 
10. To what orders do the following belong:—Cabbage tree, 
cabbage, parsnip, plum, tulip, freesia, snowflake, 
daffodil, clover, piri-piri, danthonia? 
11. Explain how a grass flower may be referred to the 
ordinary monocotylous type. 
12. How would you distinguish the lily, iris, and amaryllis 
families? 
13. To what orders studied by you do the plants most useful 
to man belong? Enumerate and classify these plants. 
14. Distinguish between species, genus, and natural order, 
and give three examples of each. 
15. Show clearly how the blackberry, rose, plum, and piripiri 
all conform to the same type. 
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