. 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. POPULAE FLORA. 181 4. Nakeo-w-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lanoe-oblong or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. E. and S. S- integrifblia. * * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 5. Dwarf S. Minutely downy, 3' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 4' long. Dry or sandy banks of river
. 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. POPULAE FLORA. 181 4. Nakeo-w-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lanoe-oblong or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. E. and S. S- integrifblia. * * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 5. Dwarf S. Minutely downy, 3' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 4' long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &c. S. pdrvula. 6. Slender S. Slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly heart- shaped base, sessile; flowers 5' long. Wet woods. S. galericuUda. 64. BOBEAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACE^. Herbs witli alternate entire leaves, not aromatic, commonly rough: the flowers regular, with a 5-leaved calyx, 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-lobed ovary, making 4 akenes. Flowers generally in one- sided raceme-like clusters, coiled up at the tip, and unfolding as the blossoms expand. Innocent mucila- ginous and slightly bitter plants, the roots of some species yielding a red dye. 445. Eranch ofPor^et-mc-not, in flower. 446. The corolla Juid open, wilh ibe Etiimens. magiiilied 447. The pjBLil wilh its 4-Iobed ovary ; calyx, &c. co( aivay. 448. Two of the ripe akenee in the calyx; the two sepals towards the eye and two of the akenes removed. 449. Aken^' cut through lengthwise, magnified ; the whole kernel embryo. 450. Flowers of Corofrey. 451. Corolla enlarged, laid open, show- ing the sharp scales inside, and the 44J 447 4^5 450 * Ovary 4-parted, making 4 akenes around the base of the style. Akenes or lobes erect, fixed by the lower end, separate from the style, not prickly. Corolla soi^ewhat irregular (the lobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). Its throat naked and open: stamens protruding
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