. 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 FLORA. 127 8 Lanck-leaved Violet. Leaves lance-shaped, erect, smooth; petals not bearded. V. laneeolita, ++ 4H. ++ Flowers light yellow, small. 9. Round-leaved V. Leaves round ovate and heart-shaped, spreading flat on the ground; side- petals bearded and brown-streaked inside. Cold woods, N. V. rotwndiftMa if * Leafy-stemmed species. M- Wild species, perennial, with
. 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 FLORA. 127 8 Lanck-leaved Violet. Leaves lance-shaped, erect, smooth; petals not bearded. V. laneeolita, ++ 4H. ++ Flowers light yellow, small. 9. Round-leaved V. Leaves round ovate and heart-shaped, spreading flat on the ground; side- petals bearded and brown-streaked inside. Cold woods, N. V. rotwndiftMa if * Leafy-stemmed species. M- Wild species, perennial, with heart-shaped leaves, blossoming nearly all summer. 10. Long-spurred V. Spur i' long, considerably longer than the pale bluish corolla. V. rostrita. 11. Muhlenberg's V. Low, spreading by runners; spur stout, not more than half the length ot the pale violet corolla. Wet woods. V. Muklenbergii. ^â 2. Pale V. Spur much shorter than the cream-colored corolla; lower petal streaked. V. striata. is. Canada V. Tall; petals white above, violet-tinged beneath; spur very short. V. Canadeneis. 14. Downy V. Tall, leafless below, downy; corolla yellow, spur very short. V. puhescetis. 4- ^- Cultivated or run wild; root annual or biennial. 15. Heart's-ease or Pansy V. Low; upper leaves oval, the lower heart-shaped; stipules large and leaf-like, pinnatifid; corolla yellow-whitish, violet-blue, and purple, varying or mixed, large and showy in the cultivated Pansy, becoming small when run wild. V. tricolor. 13. CISTUS PAMILT. Order CISTACE^. K This small family consists of low shrubby plants or perennial herbs, in Europe with a showy corolla which opens only once, in sunshine, the petals falling off at sunset. Here it contains only a few less handsome, or homely, weed-like plants. They may be known by the fbllowiug marks. â Leaves some of them alternate. Calyx remaining after blossoming, of 5 sepals, three of them large and two smaller, often very small, the latter entirely outside in the bud an
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