Group VII. 5 Stamens, Free, With 2 Pistils (75), 3 Pistils (76-8), 4 Pistils (79), Or 5 Pistils (80 2), Or Stigmas In Each Flower
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This section is from the book "Wild Flowers And How To Identify Them", by Hilderic Friend. Also available from Amazon: Wild Flowers And How To Identify Them.
Group VII. 5 Stamens, Free, With 2 Pistils (75), 3 Pistils (76-8), 4 Pistils (79), Or 5 Pistils (80 2), Or Stigmas In Each Flower
No. | Botanical Name. | Common Name. | Season | Situation. | Structure and Habit. |
75 | Gentiana . | ||||
(Fig. 23) | Gentian . | Aug.-Sept. | Heaths . . | Blue or purple flowers, erect, half a dozen species. | |
76 | Viburnum (Fig. I2) | Guelder Rose | June-July | Woods . | White flowers, outer ones largest, red fruit. |
Wayfarer Tree | May-June | Woods . | Leaves with curious hairs, mealy, rough. | ||
77 | Sambucus | Elder . . | June-July | Woods . | A tree with creamy-white flowers, black fruit. |
78 | Tamarix . | Tamarisk . | July-Sept. | Seaside. | Shrub, flowers in pretty spikes, pinky white. |
79 | Parnassia . | Grass of Par. | Aug.-Sept. | Bogs . . | White, solitary, with five glands fourteen fingered. |
80 | Statice | Sea Lavender | July-Aug. | Shores . | Sprays of purple flowers, leaves leathery. |
81 | Linum. . . | Flax . . . | June-Sept. | Chalk . . | Blue flowers on tall slender stalks. |
82 | Drosera . . | Sundew . . | July-Aug. | Bogs | Leaves with glands, fly-catcher. 3 species (Fig. 10). |
For Erodium, see Group xiv (N.O. Geraniaceae). | |||||
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