. 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 FLOHA. 191 75. MIRABILIS FAMILY. Order NYCTAGINACE^. Has some wild representatives far west and south, viz.; Oxybaphus, &c., with several flowers in a calyx-like involucre, the funnel-shaped calyx rose-purple, and exactly like a corolla. And in gardens Mirabilis or Four-o'Clock (so called from the flowers opening late in the afl;ernoon) is common. Here there is o
. 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 FLOHA. 191 75. MIRABILIS FAMILY. Order NYCTAGINACE^. Has some wild representatives far west and south, viz.; Oxybaphus, &c., with several flowers in a calyx-like involucre, the funnel-shaped calyx rose-purple, and exactly like a corolla. And in gardens Mirabilis or Four-o'Clock (so called from the flowers opening late in the afl;ernoon) is common. Here there is only one flower in the bell-shaped invo- lucre, which exactly imitates a calyx, while the large funnel-shaped calyx is just like the corolla of a Morning-Glory. Stamens 5 : style one. Leaves opposite, heart-shaped, long- stalked. The Common Fouk-o'Clock or Mikabilis, from Mexico, well known in gardens, is M. Jalapa. 16. POKE WEED FAMILY. Is represented with us by one, and that a very common, species of Pokeweed. Phytolacca. Sepals 5, rounded, concave, petal-like, white. Stamens 10, under the ovary. Ovary green, composed of 10 one- seeded ovaries united into one: styles 10, short and separate. Fruit a dark crimson 10-seeded berry. A coarse rank herb, with a thick, acrid, and poisonous root, a large pithy stem, and alternate oblong leaves; the flowers in racemes opposite the leaves. Low and rich ground, everywhere common; flowering all summer, ripening its abundant berries in autumn. P. decdndra. 476. Summit of a fljwerinj branch of Poke- weed. 477. Fruu-bearing branch. 478 A Hower. enlarged. 479. Young fiuil. 480. Snme, cut acrosa. 481. Seed divided lengthwise, and magnified. 483, Embryo, more magniiied. Order PHYTOLACCACE.*;.. 77. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. Order CHENOPODIACE^. Homely herbs, with mostly alternate leaves, without stipules, and no dry scaly bracts amon" the small and greenish flowers; the calyx enclosing the one-celled and one-seeded. Please note that these images are
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