Group IX. 6 Stamens, Equal, I Pistil (Except Meadow Saffron)
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Group IX. 6 Stamens, Equal, I Pistil (Except Meadow Saffron)
This group includes practically all the Monocoty-ledonous flowering plants, excepting the Orchids (see p. 35) and grasses. Many of the plants are bulbous. They are chiefly fleshy and showy. Many are regularly formed with a perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals, others are irregular. In the next group the 6 stamens are of unequal lengths, and the petals are 4. I put here Crocus, Iris, and Butcher's Broom, which have 3 stamens, and Meadow Saffron, with 3 pistils. In the Linnean system this group forms the class known as Hexandria.
No. | Botanical Name. | Common Name. | Season. | Situation. | Structure and Habit. |
83 | Crocus . . . | Crocus. . | Sept.-Oct. | Meadows . | |
84 | Iris (Fig. 20) | Flower de luce | May-Aug. | Thickets . | Flowers purple, stems angular, fruit in capsule. |
Gladdon . . | May-July | Marshes | Flowers yellow, stems round. | ||
85 | Ruscus. . | Butcher's Broom . . | |||
Mar.-April | Woods . | Evergreen, small flower on phyllodes, red berry. | |||
86 | Colchicum . | Saffron . . | Aug.-Oct. | Meadows . | Three styles as long as the stamens. |
87 | Narcissus | ||||
(Fig. 4) | Daffodil . . | Mar.-April | Woods . . | Yellow, single flowered, bulbous, flat leaves. | |
88 | Galanthus. . | Snowdrop | Feb.-Mar. | Woods . . | Flowers white, solitary, drooping, bulbous. |
89 | Fritillary . . | Snake's Head | May-June | Pastures . | Chequered, drooping, solitary blooms. Rare. |
90 | Allium. . . | Wild Garlic . | April-June | Woods . | White flowers, triangular stem, broad leaves, pungent. |
91 | Ornithogalum | Star of Beth. | June-July | Copses . | Pretty white flowers, fleshy. 3 species. |
92 | Hyacinth . . | Blue Bell . . | April-June | Woods . . | Bulbous, long leaves, blue drooping flowers. |
93 | Narthecium . | Bog Asphodel | June-Aug. | Bogs . . | Rigid leaves and stem, yellow flowers, fibrous root. |
94 | Convallaria (Fig. 21) | Lily of Valley | May-June | Woods . . | Fragrant white drooping flowers, two broad leaves. |
There are also a few plants found chiefly in ponds and streams, such as the flowering rush (114), arrowhead, water plantain, frog-bit (116), and water thyme, which belong to the natural orders represented by the Monocotyledons.
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