. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. (WILLOW FAMILY SALICACEAE) 473 The species may concern us because they are useful for food, fibers, lumber, medicine, etc., or because they are weeds which hinder the growth of cultivated plants, poison live stock, or do damage in other ways. Beginning with one of the lower families of the Dicotyledons, a number of families of Angiosperms having species of consid- erable economic importance are discussed in the following pages.. Fig. 415. — The flowers of a Willow. Above, at the left, a staminate catkin, and below, at the left, a staminate flower, s

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. Botany for agricultural students . Botany. (WILLOW FAMILY SALICACEAE) 473 The species may concern us because they are useful for food, fibers, lumber, medicine, etc., or because they are weeds which hinder the growth of cultivated plants, poison live stock, or do damage in other ways. Beginning with one of the lower families of the Dicotyledons, a number of families of Angiosperms having species of consid- erable economic importance are discussed in the following pages.. Fig. 415. — The flowers of a Willow. Above, at the left, a staminate catkin, and below, at the left, a staminate flower, showing the bract and sta- mens; above, at the right, a pistillate catkin, and below, at the right, a pistil- late flower, showing the bract and pistil. After Burns and Otis. Archichlamydeae A petalae Willow Family (Salicaceae). — This family, although it is not the lowest family of the Dicotyledons, stands well toward the bottom of the series. To this family belong the Willows and Poplars. The flowers are unisexual and simple in type. The plants are dioecious and bear their apetalous flowers in scaly spikes or catkins (Fig. 415). A flower consists of a pistil. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Martin, John N. (John Nathan), b. 1875. New York : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.