. 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. 317. Stamens nf Mallow unifd in a tiil'e (monadelplioiif). SIS. An anther more magnified. 319. Ploweis and leaf of INIaish-Mail'iW. 320. Us compouuU iJisiil magiiiticd. Pod of Hibiscussunouuded by the calyx and involu- cel. 3i2. The pod spliiling- into 5 valves. Mallow. Mdlva. Involucel or outer calyx 3-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Styles many. Little p
. 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. 317. Stamens nf Mallow unifd in a tiil'e (monadelplioiif). SIS. An anther more magnified. 319. Ploweis and leaf of INIaish-Mail'iW. 320. Us compouuU iJisiil magiiiticd. Pod of Hibiscussunouuded by the calyx and involu- cel. 3i2. The pod spliiling- into 5 valves. Mallow. Mdlva. Involucel or outer calyx 3-leaved. Petals notched at the upper and broader end. Styles many. Little pods oi'.cells many in a ring around a narrow axis or column (the whole shaped like a cheese), when ripe falling away separately, each one-seeded. â Herbs; flowering all summei*. 1. Low JLvLLow. Poot very long; stems spreading on the ground,; leaves round-kidney-shaped, long-stalked, scarcely lobed, crenate; flowers several in the axils, small, whitish. Very common weed in waste and cultivated ground. M. rotundifblia. 2. High I\I. Stem 3° high; leaves lobed; flowers large, rose-purple. Gardens. M. sylvesins. 8. Musk M. Stem 2° high; leaves 5-parted and the divisions cut into linear lobes (the smell faintly musky); flowers large, rose-color. Gardens. M. moschata. 4. CuKLED :M. Stem 4° to 6° high ; leaves round, toothed, much ciirled around the edge ; flow- ers small,white, sessile in the axils. Gardens. ^^' cnspa. Hibiscus. Blhhcus. Flowers large, with an involucel of many narrow bractlets, and a 5-cleft calyx, which does not open down one side. Stamens in a long and slender column. Stigmas 5. Pod short, 5-celled, splitting â when ripe into 5 valves, many-seeded; the seeds smooth or hairy, not long-woolly. Showy herbs or shrubs: flowerinsr in 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 work
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