. 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. Botany. 128 POPULAR FLORA. 14. ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY. Order HYPERICACE^.. Herbs or low shrubs, with the leaves all opposite and dotted, as if punctured, with trans- parent or dark-colored dots, one or both; the juice generally acrid. Flowers with 4 or 5 persistent sepals, as many petals, and more numerous, commonly a great number of sta- mens, and in 3 or 5 clusters, borne on the receptacl
. 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. Botany. 128 POPULAR FLORA. 14. ST. JOHN'S-WORT FAMILY. Order HYPERICACE^.. Herbs or low shrubs, with the leaves all opposite and dotted, as if punctured, with trans- parent or dark-colored dots, one or both; the juice generally acrid. Flowers with 4 or 5 persistent sepals, as many petals, and more numerous, commonly a great number of sta- mens, and in 3 or 5 clusters, borne on the receptacle. Styles 2 to 5, commonly separate, or sometmies all united into one. Ovary only one, in fruit a pod, either one-celled with 2 to 5 (commonly 3) parietal pla- centas, or with as many cells and the placentas in the inner angle of each cell (Fig. 189, 190), when ripe splitting through the partitions (Fig. 212).. 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 Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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