. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAil FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order THTMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubuljir calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 8tamen3, free from the simple pistiL Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit —We have one wild plant of the family; Daphne Me- ze
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAil FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order THTMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubuljir calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 8tamen3, free from the simple pistiL Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit —We have one wild plant of the family; Daphne Me- zereum is a hardy low shrub in gardens, and D. odora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. Plowerinr branchlet erwond. 491. Branch with foliage Htii] 493. A Aower, mnj^iiiAtid, 4)3. Siiine, mure magiiifiiid, th* calyx open. Calyx salver-shaped or funnel-shaped» generally rose-color, the border 4-lobed: stamens 8, in two sets, included; filaments hardly any, {Daphne) *Daphije. Calyx tubular, pale yellow, with no, spreading border, obscurely 4-toothed: stamens 8, with long protruded filaments, (Dirca) one- I-Bat. TRAS. 3VS» 82. NETTLE PAMILT. Order URTICACEJE. Monoecious, dioecious, or barely polygamous herbs, shrubs, or trees, with stipules, and a regular calyx, free from the ovary, which forms a one-seeded fruit. Divides into four dis- tinct dubfamilies which might be reckoned as families, viz.: — I. ELM Subfamily. Trees, with alternate simple leaves, and polygamous or often nearly perfect flowers: styles or long stigmas 2. Ovary 2-celled, a hanging ovule in each cell: stamens 4 to 9. Flowers earlier than the ^ leaves. Fruit a thin key, winged all round, one-seeded (Fig. 207), (IT'/mtM) Elm. Ovary one-celled, with one hanging ovule: stamens 6 or 6. Fruit a small drupe. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, (CkUia) Hackberrt. n. BREADFRUIT Subfamily. Trees, with a milky or colored juice, and alternate leaves; the flowers in h
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