Identifier: nativeflowersfer02meeh (find matches)
Title: The native flowers and ferns of the United States in their botanical, horticultural and popular aspects
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901
Subjects: Wild flowers -- United States Ferns -- United States
Publisher: Boston : L. Prang and Co.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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the motion -wasfound to be so slow that the plates of the stigma never closedentirely before the bee had left the flower. The seed-vessel of our species, seen in section, is a verybeautiful object, owing to the peculiar construction of the axileplacentae, and the manner in which the seeds are attached tothem. We give an outline drawing of such a section in Fig. 4.The construction of these placentiE varies in the several speciesbelono-ino- to the s:enus Mimuhis, but it is always worth exam^-ining. The geographical range of James Monkey-Flower is given inDr. Grays Synoptical Flora of North America as extendingfrom Illinois to upper Michigan and Minnesota, and west tothe Rocky Mountains in Montana, and then south to NewMexico and Arizona. Explanation of the Plate. — i. A young and vigorous plant at its first flowering. — 2. Aseed-bearing branchlet late in the season. — 3 A young seed-vessel, with the style and itsdivided stigma. — 4. Cross-section of a mature seed-vessel. r LATE
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