. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 146 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Maryland Senna. Root perennial; stems 3° or 4° high; leaflets 6 to 9 pairs, lance-oblong, 1' o* more long, used for medicine instead of the imported senna. Rich soil. C. Marildndica. 2. Partridge-Pea S. Annual, low, spreading; leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, linear-oblong, jf long; flowers large and showy; anthers 10, six of them purple. Sandy fields. C. Chamcecrista. 3. Sensitive S. Flowers small, short-stalked; anthers only 5: otherwise like the last. C. nictitans. 33. HOSE FAMILY. Order ROSACEA. A large and most important
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 146 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Maryland Senna. Root perennial; stems 3° or 4° high; leaflets 6 to 9 pairs, lance-oblong, 1' o* more long, used for medicine instead of the imported senna. Rich soil. C. Marildndica. 2. Partridge-Pea S. Annual, low, spreading; leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, linear-oblong, jf long; flowers large and showy; anthers 10, six of them purple. Sandy fields. C. Chamcecrista. 3. Sensitive S. Flowers small, short-stalked; anthers only 5: otherwise like the last. C. nictitans. 33. HOSE FAMILY. Order ROSACEA. A large and most important family of plants, distinguished by having alternate leaves with stipules, and regular flowers; their generally 5 petals (sometimes wanting) and sta- mens (generally numerous, at least above 10) inserted on the persistent calyx. The seeds are few and their whole kernel is embryo, as is seen in an almond (Fig. 36), Apple-seed, or Cherry-seed (Fig. 38), &c. The family furnishes some of our most esteemed fruits: all the plants are innocent, except the strong-scented foliage and bark, in the Almond sub- family. For figures illustrating this family, see those of Cherry-blossom (Fig. 193), Hawthorn-blossom (Fig. 194), the fruit of Apple and Quince, (Fig. 200 and 201), Peach (Fig. 202), Rose and Strawberry (Fig. 220 - 222), and the annexed figures. I. ALMOND Subfamily. Pistil only one, free from the calyx, becoming a stone-fruit. — Trees or shrubs with simple leaves ; the bruised bark and foliage with a peculiar aromatic scent and flavor.— The plants of this division are all ranked under two great genera {Amygdalus and Primus), but under several subgenera, here adopted for the convenience of the common names. Calyx with a rather deep cup. Petals rose or red-purple. Stone of the fruit rough. Flesh of the fruit becoming a dry husk. We have the dwarf Flowering-Almond in gardens, Avith double flowers. It does not form fruit here, {Amygdalus) ^Almond. Flesh pulpy: surface downy (o
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