RFFMTC3P–Annual pearlwort (Sagina apetala). A tiny plant with green flowers in the family Caryophyllaceae, flowering on disturbed ground
RMADYGK9–inflorescence against blue sky Sagina apetala ssp. micropetala
RMMKN9Y6–Sagina Apetala
RM2C1K5CP–Sagina apetala Ard Sagina apetala Ard.
RM2HE5HNX–Sagina apetala illustration (01).
RMRH83YR–. Botany of the living plant. Botany. THE INFLORESCENCE, AND THE FLOWER !35 parts which comparison with allied plants would show as actually present. Sometimes those parts are represented by vestigial remains, marking the position which those parts should hold, though they do not come to functional maturity. A good case of ;i vestigial stamen {st.) is seen in Scrophidaria (Fig. 183). Meiomery may appear in any of the floral parts ; often it is seen in several of them in the same flower. A complete whorl may be absent : for instance the corolla in the Pearl-Wort [Sagina apetala) in the Pink Fam
RMRDY845–. Botany of the living plant. Botany. THE INFLORESCENCE, AND THE FLOWER 235 parts which comparison with allied plants would show as actually present. Sometimes those parts are represented by vestigial remains, marking the position which those parts should hold, though they do not come to functional maturity. A good case of a vestigial stamen (st.) is seen in Scrophularia (Fig. 1S3). Meiomery may appear in an}' of the floral parts ; often it is seen in several of them in the same flower. A complete whorl may be absent: for instance the corolla in the Pearl-Wort (Sagina apetala) in the Pink Fami
RM2C1K5BN–Sagina apetala Ard Sagina apetala Ard.
RMREK6XY–. The classification of flowering plants. Plants. 120 FLOWERIXG PLANTS (of which sometimes 011I3' one is developed) and five carpels. Sagiiia shews a similar structm-e but the parts of the flower are often in fours (fig. 56, H). In Sagina apetala the petals are minute or absent. Cerastium has notched petals and in C. semideoaiidruin the inner whorl of stamens is usualh^ sup- pressed. In SteUaria (figs. 06, I, 57) the flower is usually 5-, rarely 4-merous, but the carpels are reduced to three. Con- siderable variation occurs in one and the same species. The common Chickweed {SteUaria media, fig