. 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; Botany. 172 POPULAR FLORA. WiNTEKBEEKT H. Or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prims. -f- verlicillaia. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACEJE. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, v
. 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; Botany. 172 POPULAR FLORA. WiNTEKBEEKT H. Or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prims. -f- verlicillaia. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACEJE. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz.; â 423 Persimmon. Diospyros. Tree with alternate thi^kish leaves; / Xxn, ^^ .A<S^ in their axils some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-cIeft corolla and about 16 stamens; others single and larger perfect flowers, with a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens. Calyx 4-cleft, rather large, thickish. Corolla pale yel- ,]ow. Pistil one, with : the'ovary ripening into a plum-like fruit, which is very astringent when green, but sweet and yellow and eatable after frosts, con- ,jj ,K 42, taining 8 large and bony flat seeds. 422. Ferule flnwer. 42). Coi-olla and slameiis of the same, laid open. Jj- Vlrginianil. 424. Fruit. 425. Section of tile 56. PLANTAIN FAMILY. Order Consists mainly of the genus of low stemless herbs called Plantain (or Rib-Grass). Plantago. Flowers greenish, on a scape, in a close spike. â Calyx of 4 persistent sepals. Corolla salver-shaped, thin, withering on the pod, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, generally with-very long and weak filaments, borne on the corolla. Style and stigma one, slender. Pod 2-celled, opening crosswise, the top falling off as n, lid, the loose partition falling out with the Leaves generally with strong ribs. Common Plantain. Leaves ovate or slightly heart-shaped, several-ribbed; seeds 7 to 16. P- major. ViKGiNiA P. Small (2' to V high), hairy; leaves oblong, 3-6-ribbed; seeds 2. P. Virginica. English P.
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