. 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. 164 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Leaves in whorls. Ovary 2-celled, separating in tlie ripe fruit into two closed and one-seeded pieces: teetli or limb of the calyx small or hardly to be discerned. Stamens 5 and the corolla 6-parted. Fruit berry-like when ripe, (Rubia) *Maddek. Stamens and divisions of the wheel-shaped corolla 4, rarely 3. Fruit a pair of dry or fleshy akenes, smooth in
. 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. 164 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Leaves in whorls. Ovary 2-celled, separating in tlie ripe fruit into two closed and one-seeded pieces: teetli or limb of the calyx small or hardly to be discerned. Stamens 5 and the corolla 6-parted. Fruit berry-like when ripe, (Rubia) *Maddek. Stamens and divisions of the wheel-shaped corolla 4, rarely 3. Fruit a pair of dry or fleshy akenes, smooth in some species, in others rough, iu others beset with hooked prickles, making little burs, (Galium) Bedstkaw. 2. Leaves opposite, and with stipules, either as little scales or forming a small sheath. Shrub; flowers (white) many in a close round head (Fig. 145), ( Cqiliuldnthus) Buttonbush. Small herbs. (Corolla 4-lobed.) Flowers twin, on one ovary, which makes a double-eyed red berry. Small creeping evergreen, with round leaves. Corolla bearded inside. {MUdulla) PAnTEiDGE-BEiaiY. Flowers separate, peduncled. Fruit a dry pod. Stems erect. ( Oldenldndia. § Houslbnia) Bluets. 48. VALERIAN FAMILY. Order VALERIANACE^. Herbs, with strong-scented roots, opposite leaves, and no stipules, a 5-lobed monopetalous corolla bearing only 2 or 3 stamens, and borne on the o\ary, which makes a small one- seeded dry fruit. Flowers small, in cymes or clusters, white or purplish. Limb of the calyx crowning the fruit in the form of feathery bristles, ( Vahriann) *Valekian. Limb of the calyx only one or more blunt teeth, {Fedia) Lame-Lettuce. 49. TEASEL FAMILY. Order , Herbs, with opposite leaves, no stipules, and perfect flowers in dense heads, surrounded by an involucre, and with a chaflfy bract under each blossom. Coi-olla tubular or funnel- form, with 4 or 5 lobes, bearing 4 stamens, and itself borne on the o^'ary, which becomes an akene in fruit, containing one hanging seed. Flowers in
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