. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. Oh. XXL] CLASSES AND ORDERS. 123 using it as Americans do tobacco. Those who have read the Lady of the Manor, Stories on the Church Catechism, and other works of Mrs. Sherwood, as well as those of other Avri- ters on the manners and customs of the people of India, will re- collect the betel nut. CHAPTER XXI. Class 3d—Class kth. s III.—TRIANDRIA, three stamens. Order 1st, Monogynia, om pistil. 74. 521. This picture represen
. Botany for beginners : an introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on botany : for the use of common schools and the younger pupils of higher schools and academies. Botany. Oh. XXL] CLASSES AND ORDERS. 123 using it as Americans do tobacco. Those who have read the Lady of the Manor, Stories on the Church Catechism, and other works of Mrs. Sherwood, as well as those of other Avri- ters on the manners and customs of the people of India, will re- collect the betel nut. CHAPTER XXI. Class 3d—Class kth. s III.—TRIANDRIA, three stamens. Order 1st, Monogynia, om pistil. 74. 521. This picture represents two flowers of this class and order. At a is a flower of the genus Ixia, (from the Greek ivios, blue.) the common name of which is blackberry-lily, though the blackberry-lily common in our gardens is of an orange colour ; at , b is the same flower cut lengthwise to .shoAv the three stamens; this is not a liliaceous flower, notwithstanding its common name, as such flowers have six stamens. Fig. 74, at c, represents the Nardus, or mat-grass : this flower differs from those of the common grass- es in having but one pistil. 522. The Crocus is among our earliest garden flowers; its name is derived from ancient Mythology, which pretended that a youth of that name was transformed into this plant. 523. The species of crocus called remits (a name which sig- nifies spring) sometimes appears as early as March, and often springs up amidst surrounding snow banks; it is of various co- lours, purple, straw coloured, yellow, and variegated. This is a Bulbous plant, with linear leaves, a spatha calyx, and a corolla of six petals. 524. One species of the Crocus, the autumnalis, blossoms late in autumn; the large yellow stigmas, furnish the true saf- fron which is sold by druggists. The plant commonly known among us as the saffron, is a compound flower, and belongs tu 521. What does Fig. 74 represent 1 522. What is said of the Crocus with respect io the derivation of its name 1 523. Descri
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