Botany for young people and common schools. How plants grow, a simple introduction to structural botany (1858)
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 · New York, American Book Company · leaf 74
66 HOW PLANTS ARE PROPAGATED, corolla-leaves, and the inner corolla-leaves change gradually into stamens, — show¬ ing that even stamens answer to leaves. 198\ How a stamen answers to a leaf, according to the botanist’s idea, Fig. v 158 is intended to show. The filament or stalk of the stamen… … (that is, of what would have been a leaf on any branch of the common kind,) so that the margins come together and join, making a hollow closed bag, which is the ovary ; a tapering summit forms the style, and some part of the margins of the leaf in this, destitute of skin, becomes the stig¬ ma. To…
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