. 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. 164 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Lea^yes in whorls. Ovary 2-celled, separating in the ripe fruit into two closed and one-seeded pieces: ^-~--' teeth or limb of the calyx small or hardly to be discerned. Stamens 5 and the corolla 5-parted. Fruit berry-like when ripe, {Ruhia) *Madder. Stamens and divisions of the wheel-shaped corolla 4, rarely 3. Fruit a pair of dry or fleshy akenes, smooth in s
. 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. 164 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Lea^yes in whorls. Ovary 2-celled, separating in the ripe fruit into two closed and one-seeded pieces: ^-~--' teeth or limb of the calyx small or hardly to be discerned. Stamens 5 and the corolla 5-parted. Fruit berry-like when ripe, {Ruhia) *Madder. Stamens and divisions of the wheel-shaped corolla 4, rarely 3. Fruit a pair of dry or fleshy akenes, smooth in some species, in others rough, iu others beset with hooked prickles, making little burs, {Galium) Bedstkaw. 2. Leaves opposite, and with stipules, either as little scales or forming a small sheath. Shrub: flowers (white) many in a close round head (Fig. 145), ( Cephaldnihus) Buttonbush. Small herbs. (Corolla 4-lobed.) Flowers twin, on one ovar}-, which makes a double-eyed red berry. Small creepino- evergreen, with round leaves. Corolla bearded inside. {Mltchclla) PAnxKiDGE-BERKY. Flowers separate, peduncled. Fruit a diy pod. Stems erect. ( Oldeiih'mdia. § Iluuslbnia) Bluets. 48. VAIiERIA]^ FAMILY. Order Herbs, Avith strong-scented roots, opposite leaves, and no stipules, a 5-lobcd monopetalons corolla bearing only 2 or 3 stamens, and borne on the ovary, which makes a small one- seeded dry fruit. Flowers small, in cymes or clusters, â white or purplish. Limb of the calyx crowning the fruit in the form of feathery bristles, ( Valeriana) ^Valerian. Limb of the calyx only one or more blunt teeth, {Fedia) LAaiB-LExxucE. 49. TEASEL FAMILY. Order DIPSACEiE. Herbs, with opposite leaves, no stipules, and perfect flowers in dense heads, surrounded by an involucre, and with a chaffy bract under each blossom. Corolla tubular or funnel- form, with 4 or 5 lobes, bearing 4 stamens, and itself borne on the ovary, which becomes an akene in fruit, containins; one hano-inor seed
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