. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, 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. POPULAB FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order THYMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, free from the simple pistil. Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit.—We have one wild plant of the f
. Botany for young people and common schools : how plants grow, 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. POPULAB FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order THYMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, 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 Z). oclora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. PlowerinsbrnnchletofLenth- erwood. 491. Branch with foliage and fnlit. 493. A fluwer, magnified. 493. Same, more magnified, the calyx laid open. Calyx salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, generally rose-color, the border 4-lobedr stamens 8, in two sets, included; filaments hardly any, (Daphne) *Daphne. Calyx tubular, pale yellow, with no spreading border, obscurely 4-toothed: stamens 8, with long protruded ^laments, ' (Dirca) 82. NETTLE FAMILY. Order VRTICAC^M. 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 subfamiUes 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), (TJlmm) ' Ovary one-celled, with one hanging ovule: stamens 5 or 6. Fruit a small drupe. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, (CeUis) Hackbeeky. n. BREADFRUIT Subfamily. Trees, with a milky or colored juice, and alternate leaves; the flowers in heads or catkin-
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