. 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. 134 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Amekican Linden or Basswood. Leaves green, smooth, or in some varieties downy underneath', a petal-like body in the middle of each of the 5 clusters of stamens. T. Americana. 2. EunoPEAN Linden. Leaves smooth or nearly so; stamens hardly in clusters, no petal-like bodies â with them. Cultivated in cities, &c. as a shade-tree. T. Eurqposa. 19. C
. 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. 134 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Amekican Linden or Basswood. Leaves green, smooth, or in some varieties downy underneath', a petal-like body in the middle of each of the 5 clusters of stamens. T. Americana. 2. EunoPEAN Linden. Leaves smooth or nearly so; stamens hardly in clusters, no petal-like bodies â with them. Cultivated in cities, &c. as a shade-tree. T. Eurqposa. 19. CAMELLIA FAMILY. Order CAMELLIACEjE. Shrubs or small trees, with alternate and simple leaves, not dotted; large and showy flowers, with a persistent calyx of 5 overlapping sepals, and very many stamens, their fila- ments united at the bottom with each other and with the base of the petals. Anthers 2-celled. Fruit a woody pod of 3 to 6 cells, containing few large seeds. To this belongs the grateful Tea-plant of China, and the ' Camellia, of our green-houses. Camellia Jap&nica. Loblolly-Bay, of swamps in the Southern States, Gordmia Lasidntjius. 20. OEANGE FAMILY. Order AURANTIACEJ5. Like the last, this family hardly claims o, place here, being only house-plants, except far south. Known by having 20 or more stamens in one row around a single pistil, and the leaves Laving a joint between the blade and the winged or margined footstalk : they (and the fra- grant petals) are punctate with transparent dots, looking like holes when held between the eye and the light, which are little reservoirs of fragrant oil. Fruit a berry with a thick rind. Orange, Citncs Aurdntium.' Lemon, Citrus Limbnium. 21. FLAX FAMILY. Order LINACEiE. ^ Herbs with tough fibres in the inner bark, simple leaves, and oily seeds with a mucilagi- nous coat; consisting only of the Flax genus, which is kiiown by the following marks :.â. 828. Common Flax. S29. Half of a flower, enlarged. 330. Pod, cul acrou. Flax&
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