For more detailed descriptions, description of other plants, flower
uses, and flower legends and history, the following books will prove
helpful:
Bailey, L. H., _The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture_.
Benson, L. and Darrow, R. A., _A Manual of Southwestern Desert Trees
and Shrubs_.
Britton, N. L. and Brown, H. A., _An Illustrated Flora of the Northern
United States, Canada and the British Possessions_.
Cory, V. L. and Parks, H. B., _Catalogue of the Flora of Texas_.
Coulter, John M., _Cop. Botany of Western Texas_ (_U. S. Nat. Herb.
Contr._, 1892, out of print).
Dorman, Caroline E., _Wild Flowers of Louisiana_.
Fassett, N. C., _A Manual of Aquatic Plants_.
Geiser, S. W., _Naturalists of the Frontier_. Southwest Press, Dallas.
Jaeger, E. C., _Desert Wild Flowers_.
Kearney, T. H. and Peebles, R. H., _Flowering Plants and Ferns of
Arizona_.
Parks, H. B., _Valuable Plants Native to Texas_.
Preston, R. J., _Rocky Mountain Trees_.
Quillan, Ellen Schulz, _Texas Wild Flowers_.
Ranson, Nancy R., _Texas Wild Flower Legends_.
Reeves, R. G., and Bain, D. C., _Flora of South-Central Texas_.
Rydberg, P. A., _Flora of the Prairies and Plains of Central N. A._
(out of print).
Silveus, W. A., _Texas Grasses_.
Slater, Elsie M., _A Hundred Flowers of the Mexican Border at El
Paso_.
Small, John K., _Flora of the Southeastern United States_, out of
print; _Manual of the Southeastern Flora_.
Standley, P. C., _Trees and Shrubs of Mexico_ (U. S. Nat Herb. Contr.,
19—, out of print).
Stemen, T. B. and Myers, W. S., _Oklahoma Flora_.
Wooton, E. O. and Standley, P. C., _Flora of New Mexico_ (U. S. Nat.
Herb. Contr. Vol. 19, out of print).
[Illustration: PLANT PARTS]
COROLLA LOBES SEPARATE
STIGMA
STAMEN
PETAL
SEPAL
FLOWER-STALK (PEDUNCLE)
COROLLA LOBES UNITED
COROLLA LOBE
STAMEN
ANTHER (POLLEN-SAC)
FILAMENT
SEPAL
PISTIL
STIGMA
STYLE
OVARY
CALYX-TUBE
SEED
STIGMA
STAMEN
SEPAL
CALYX-TUBE
CAPSULE
BELL-SHAPE
CALYX-TUBE
TUBULAR
FUNNEL FORM
COMPOSITE FLOWER HEADS
INVOLUCRE
STIGMA
STYLE
STAMEN TUBE
DISK COROLLA
RAY COROLLA
DISK
FRUIT
BRACT (FLORAL LEAF)
FLORAL LEAF (BRACT)
LEAF BLADE
MIDRIB
LEAF-STALK (PETIOLE)
IRREGULAR LOBES
FRUIT OF COMPOSITE (ACHENE)
BRISTLES (PAPPUS)
SEED
SIMPLE LEAVES
LINEAR
LANCE-SHAPE
OBLONG
LANCE-OBLONG
OVATE
COMPOUND LEAVES
ONCE-DIVIDED
PALMATE or DIGITATE
SHARPLY TOOTHED
LEAFLETS
LEAF-STALK (PETIOLE)
STEM
PINNATE
TWICE-DIVIDED
LEAFLET
LEAF-STALK