. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order TIIYMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, free from the simple pistil. Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit—We have one wild plant of the family ; Daphne Ma- ze reum is a hardy low shrub in gardens, and D. odora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. Flowering- branchlet of Lent h- erwoorl. ISl. Branch with foliage an
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order TIIYMELEACEJE. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, free from the simple pistil. Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit—We have one wild plant of the family ; Daphne Ma- ze reum is a hardy low shrub in gardens, and D. odora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. Flowering- branchlet of Lent h- erwoorl. ISl. Branch with foliage and fruit. 492. A flower, magnified. 4^3. Same, more magnified, ihe calyx laid open. Calyx salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, generally rose-color, the border 4-lobed: stamens 8, in two sets, included; filaments hardly any, {Daphne) *Daphne. Calyx tubular, pale yellow, with no spreading border, obscurely 4-toothed: stamens 8, with long protruded filaments, (Dirca) 82. NETTLE FAMILY. Order URTICACEJE. Monoecious, dioecious, or barely polygamous herbs, shrubs, or trees, with stipules, and a regular calyx, free from the ovary, which forms a one-seeded fruit. Divides into four dis- tinct subfamilies which might be reckoned as families, viz.: — I. ELM Subfamily. Trees, with alternate simple leaves, and polygamous or often nearly perfect flowers: styles or long stigmas 2. Ovary 2-celled, a hanging ovule in each cell: stamens 4 to 9. Flowers earlier than the leaves. Fruit a thin key, winged all round, one-seeded (Fig. 207), ( Ulmus) Elm. Ovary one-celled, with one hanging ovule: stamens 5 or 6. Fruit a small drupe. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, (Celtis) Hackberry. II. BREADFRUIT Subfamily. Trees, with a milky or colored juice, and alternate leaves; the flowers in heads or catkin-like spikes, the fertile ones fleshy in fruit, or both kinds In a fleshy receptacle. Styles 1 or 2: ovary becoming an akene in fruit. Inner bark often tough and fibrous. Flowers, of both kinds mi
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