. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 173. 57. LEADWORT FAMILY. Order PLUMBAGINACEiE. Famiilar to us in two plants only, viz. ^Maksii-Rosemary on the coast, and Thrift in gardens; known by having a dry and scaly funnel-shaped calyx, and 5 petals united only at their base, with a stamen before each, and 5 styles on a single one-seeded ovary. Flowers (rose-color) in a round head on a long and naked scape: l
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 173. 57. LEADWORT FAMILY. Order PLUMBAGINACEiE. Famiilar to us in two plants only, viz. ^Maksii-Rosemary on the coast, and Thrift in gardens; known by having a dry and scaly funnel-shaped calyx, and 5 petals united only at their base, with a stamen before each, and 5 styles on a single one-seeded ovary. Flowers (rose-color) in a round head on a long and naked scape: leaves very narrow, all in a close tuft at the root, {Anneria) Thrift. Flowers (lavender-color) spiked or sessile along the branches of a forking panicle : leaves spatulate, thickish, on petioles, nearly all of them from the stout rootstock, (Stddce) Maksh-Kosemaky. <30. Calyjt mid corolla of Tlirift ; separalctl. 431. Pislil of the same, with its 5 style* : al«o the lower pa:t of an ovary more magnified, cut across. 58. PRIMROSE FAMILY. Order PRIMULACEiE. Herbs, with regular perfect flowers; completely distinguished by having the stamens of the same number as the lobes to the corolla and one before each., inserted on the tube; the pistil with a one-celled ovary or pod, with one large placenta rising from its base, and bear- ing many or few seeds. Leaves under water pinnately divided into thread-like divisions; flowering stems hollow, and inflated between the joints, {Ilottdniu) Featheefoil. Leaves simple and entire or barely toothed. Calyx with its tube coherent with the base of the ovary. Flowers very small, white, in racemes. Leaves alternate, {Sdmolus) Brookweed. Calyx and corolla free, inserted on the receptacle. Leaves all at the root: flowers in an umbel. Calyx tubular: corolla salver-shaped: stamens included, {Pvimvla) Primrose. Calyx and corolla 5-parted, turned back: anthers long, and filaments ver}' short, connected, (Dodecdiheon) Dodecatkeon. Leaves several in a
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