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Title: A popular California flora, or, Manual of botany for beginners. Containing descriptions of flowering plants growing in central California, and westward to the ocean. With illustrated introductory lessons, especially adapted to the Pacific coast
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Rattan, Volney, 1840-1915
Subjects: Plants -- California
Publisher: San Francisco, A.L. Bancroft
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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o CaryopJiijUacece. Fremontia Califor-nkay belonging to the Order Sterculiaceas, which is aUied to the Malvaceae, is mostconveniently described here also. It is a small tree, bearing conspicuous yellow flowersin the axils of usually broadly cordate, lobed leaves. The apetalous flowers are some-times 2 or 3 inches across. The Order Capparidaceae is represented in Santa Barbara County, and southward, byIsomeris arborea, a low shrub, bearing bracteate racemes of yellow flowers, the pistilsconspicuous on account of their long stipes. The flowers of this plant are apparentlylike those of the Cruciferse, and its proper place is next to that order. Capers are ob-tained from a cultivated plant of this order.. The Order Styracaceae is represented by Styrax Californica, a pretty shrub, bearingclusters of nearly rotate white flowers, in which the gamopetalous corolla is cut down tothe short tube which is adnate to the tube formed by the stamens: Calyx truncate, . PAPAVERACILE. POPPY FAMILY.) 20a
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Order 4. PAPAVERACEiE .^ii*w \ On the left above is represented an opening bud of Esclischoltzia. The cap-like calyx has been split at the bottom and shoved upward by the expanding petals. Xext to thisbud is an open flower of )Meconopsis and one of its nodding buds. Behind the flower,and projecting above it to the right, is a stem from which the petals have just fallen.The slender filaments bending to one side, as they often do, show the curious pistilwhich in time becomes the pretty fluted capsule seen below. To the right of the Meco-nopsis pod is the three-sided capsule of Platystigma lineare. The stem should have afew hairs upon it. The two flowers with hairy stems, the nodding buds below, and therough seed pod above, belong to Platystemon. Observe the three caducous sepals, justready to drop from the opening bud. The smooth plant on the right is PlatystigmaCalifornicum. If you choose you may call this the Smooth Platystigma, and the otherspecies, with the triangular pod, Hairy Pla

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