. 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. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order TIIYMELEACE^E. Shrubs, -with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- â ^jk / roUa, bearing 8 or 10 " ~^ "^ stamens, free from the simple pistil. Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit. âWe have one Aviid plant of the family ; Da
. 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. 195 81. MEZEREUM FAMILY. Order TIIYMELEACE^E. Shrubs, -with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- â ^jk / roUa, bearing 8 or 10 " ~^ "^ stamens, free from the simple pistil. Ovary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit. âWe have one Aviid plant of the family ; Daphne Me- zereum is a hardy low shrub in gardens, and D. odora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. Floweiin? of Leath- eiwodfi. 4&1 Biaiicli wiili fuliaytf und 43"2. A Hotter, nii«2riiifi<;il. 4^3 S;iiiie, iriore iiiagailieii, the calyx upeii. Calyx salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, generally rose-color, the border 4-lobed: stamens 8, in two sets, included; filaments hai'dly any, {Dti/jhne) * Daphne. -^ Calyx tubular, pale yellow, with no spreading border, obscurely 4-toothed: stamens 8, with long protruded filaments, {Dirca) 82. NETTLE FAMILY. Order Monoecious, dioecious, or barely polygamous herbs, shrubs, or trees, with stipules, and a reo-ular calvx, free from the ovarv, which forms a one-seeded fruit. Divides into four dis- tinct subfamilies which mi^ht be reckoned as families, viz.: â I. ELM Subfamily. Trees, with alternate simple leaves, and polygamous or often nearly perfect flowers: styles or long stigmas 2. Ovary 2-celled, a hanging ovule in each cell: stamens 4 to 9. Flowers earlier than the leaves. Fruit a thin key, winged all round, one-seeded (Fig. 207), {Ulmus) Elm. Ovary one-celled, with one hanging ovule: stamens 5 or 6. Fruit a small drupe. Leaves 7. ovate or heart-shaped, ( Cellis) Hackberky. IL BREADFRUIT Subfamily. Trees, with a milky or colored juice, an» .j
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