. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. 122 POPULAR FLORA. 4. Ci7CDMBER-M. A low tree ; loaves ovnto or a little heart-shaped ; flowers creftni-yeJlow. S. ; somctiiiies cultivated at the North. M. cordata. i J. UMHRKLLA-TUKEH. Leaves thin, large, those 011 the flowering shoots forming an umhrollii- liko circle underneath the blossom ; leaf-huds smootii; floiver large and white, not awoet-scented, ai>i)earing in earl
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. 122 POPULAR FLORA. 4. Ci7CDMBER-M. A low tree ; loaves ovnto or a little heart-shaped ; flowers creftni-yeJlow. S. ; somctiiiies cultivated at the North. M. cordata. i J. UMHRKLLA-TUKEH. Leaves thin, large, those 011 the flowering shoots forming an umhrollii- liko circle underneath the blossom ; leaf-huds smootii; floiver large and white, not awoet-scented, ai>i)earing in early sjiriiig; petals about 4' long, tapering lielow. V ) Um»\ Leaves nearly i' long, amicled at tlie base (Tig. 102). S. Af. Fn'meri, 6. Common «\-AL Leav(!.s i" to 2" long, tapering into u niiort footstalk. M. Umhrdla, 7. Tiiere ia, beaides, the (. M., with niucii the largest flowers and leaves of all, the h'tter 2° or 3" long, scattered, heart-siiaped at the base, and wliitedowny beneath ; flower 8' or 10' broad. .S. untl cult, rarely. It does not, belong exactly to eillur the above divisions. M. iiKicniphijt/a. 8. The I'lUlM-K M.\\, from Japan, is a shrul) in some ganiens and grounds, flowering befor© the leaves are out. M. puvfiurca^ 3. CUSTARD-APPLE FAMILY. :. Trees or «, resembling the Magnoliii family, but tlie 3 |H't;ils of each .set not overliii'i»iii;^' other in the hud ; tlu; hark and foliai,'e not aromatic, l)tit uni)leasant-taste<l ; the sicds hirj^e and hony, tliiMr all)iimeii varif^'.ite<l like a nutmeg,', or cut into .slit«. Leaves entire, tilute of stipuhs. Only oiu! gcntis in tliis coun- try, Mild one sjiecics com- nmn ; tiie 1. Common A sniiiil tiee, witii dingy- purj)le tloweis appear- ing in early spring rather before the leaves ; the 3 outer petals much larger than the 3 inner ones ; fruits eatable when ripe, in nutumn, 2' or 3' long. C
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