. 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. 188 POPULAR FLORA. the other out) ; the 5 stamens on the corolla alternate with its lobes; the anthers generally more or less adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2; but the stigmas, and often the styles also, united into one ; the fruit two separate pods. Seeds generally many, and with a tuft of down at one end. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and a wheel-shaped 5-parted borde
. 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. 188 POPULAR FLORA. the other out) ; the 5 stamens on the corolla alternate with its lobes; the anthers generally more or less adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2; but the stigmas, and often the styles also, united into one ; the fruit two separate pods. Seeds generally many, and with a tuft of down at one end. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and a wheel-shaped 5-parted border: style one. Leaves generally in whorls. Shrub, with large rose-colored flowers, (Nerium) ^Oleandek. Leaves opposite, evergreen in the common creeping species. Fl. blue, ( Vinca) *Peiuwijsklk. Leaves alternate, very many, narrow. Erect herbs with pale-blue salver-shaped flow. ers: seeds not tufted, (Amsdnia) Amsonia. Corolla bell-shaped, white or pinkish: style none. Herbs, with opposite leaves. {Apdvynum) Dogbane. Dogbane. Apdcynum. 1. Spreading D. Branches of the low erect stem widely diverging; leaves ovate or oval; cymes few- flowered ; lobes of corol- la recurved; tube shorter than the calyx. Thickets, &c. A. androscRmifblium. 2. Hemp D. or Indian Hemp. Stem and branches erect or ascending; cymes few- fiowered; lobes of the co- rolla not recurved, the tube not longer than the calyx. A. canndbinum. «6. Summit of a plant of Duffbaiie, No. 1, with fljwera ant] pods 467. Flowers, enlarged. 4ia. Flower wiih ihe corolla cut awHy, 10 show the elumens 469. The Gtnmens taken Hway,loshow llie pistils i two ovaiit^s, wiili their two brge Bdgmns united into one mass. 470 AsesLl, with iia luflof long hairs or down at one 71. MILKWEED FAMILY. Order ASCLEPIADACE^. Plants with milky juice, tough bark, and in other respects like the Dogbane family, but with the 5 short stamens all united by their filaments into a ring or tube, the anthers n-rown fast to the large stigma, and th
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