. 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. POPULAR FLOKA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Leniago. 3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. 4. Akeow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight
. 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. POPULAR FLOKA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Leniago. 3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. 4. Akeow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. deniatum. 5. Maple-leaved V. or Dockmackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, downy beneath; cymes long-stalked. Kocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifdlium. * * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and fiat corolla, white {just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 6. Snowball V. or Cranberry-tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour. Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tkee or Gueldek-Eose is a cultivated state of this, with all the flowers become neutral. V. Ojjulus. 7. HoBBLEBUSH V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or heart-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. Damp woods, N. V. lantarmdes. 47. MADDER PAMILY. Order RUBIACEiE. Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate wiUijits lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between S93. Piece of Mndder, in flower, 391. Half of a flower, magnified. 395. Young fruits. 396, Ripef. uil. 8j7. Common Eluets 398 tjection of a flower len^Lliwise, magnified, and tlie corolla laid open, 399. Corolla of another flower Jaid open, and tile style, *. Please note th
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