. 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. 172 POPULAR FLORA. 2- WiNTERBERRY IT. Of Black Alder. Leavcs thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. Tliis belonjrs to the section Frinos. /. verticillixicu 65. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACE^. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz. ; —
. 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. 172 POPULAR FLORA. 2- WiNTERBERRY IT. Of Black Alder. Leavcs thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. Tliis belonjrs to the section Frinos. /. verticillixicu 65. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACE^. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz. ; — <23 * Persimmon. Diospyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; -/ \^ ^ .^^ .^yf^ in their axils some trees bear clustered stamina^e flowers, with a 4-cleft 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- low. Pistil one, with 4 styles: the ovary ripening into a plum-like fruit, which is very astringent when green, but sweet and yellow and eatable after frosts, con- taining 8 large and bony flat seeds. D. A2'i 425 <24 Ail. Kertile flower. 421. Corolla und stamens of the same, laid open. ^i. ir'itiil. 4'^. btclioii ut' the same. 56. PLANTAIN FAMILY. Order TLANTAGINACE^. Consists mainly of the genus of low stemless herbs called Plantain (or Rib-Grass). Plantago. .Flowers greenish, on a scape, in a close spike. — Calyx of 4 persistent sepals. Corolla falver-shaped, thin, withering on the pod. 4-lobed. Stamens 4, generally with very long weak filaments, borne on the corolla. Style and stigma one, slender. Pod 2-celle(l, opening crosswise, the top falling off as a lid, the loose partition falling out with the seeds. Leaves generally with strong ribs. 1, Common Plantain. Leaves ovate or slightly heart-shaped, several-ribbed; eceds 7 to 16. P. major. !J. Virginia P. Small (2' to 7' high), hairy; leaves oblong, 3-5-ribbed; seeds 2. P. Mr
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