. 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. 194 POPULAR FLORA. ers scattered in a long and naked slender spike; calyx greenish, 4-parted; stamens 5; styles 2, bent down in fruit. Thickets. P. Vii-fjinianum. ^- ^_ Somewhat climbing, or supported by recurved sharp prickly bristles on the strong angles of tha stems, &c.; flowers white or flesh-color in small racemes or heads; root annual. The prickly angles cut like a saw, w
. 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. 194 POPULAR FLORA. ers scattered in a long and naked slender spike; calyx greenish, 4-parted; stamens 5; styles 2, bent down in fruit. Thickets. P. Vii-fjinianum. ^- ^_ Somewhat climbing, or supported by recurved sharp prickly bristles on the strong angles of tha stems, &c.; flowers white or flesh-color in small racemes or heads; root annual. The prickly angles cut like a saw, whence the plants are called Tear-Thumb. 11. Akkow-leayed K. Leaves arrow-shaped (Fig. 100), short-stalked; akene 3-angled. P. sngiilatum. 12. Halberd-leaved K. Leaves halberd-shaped (Fig. 102), long-stalked ; akene flattish. Lovr grounds. P. arifvlium. ^_ s-^ ^- Twining annuals, with smooth stems and greenish or whitish flowers in panicled racemes; leaves heart-shaped and partly halberd-shaped. 13. Climbing K. Smooth, climbing high over shi-ubs, tScc.; racemes leafy; 3 of the calyx-lobes more or less winged in fruit. Thickets in low ground. P. dunwtbrum. 14. BixDAVEED K. Low, stems roughish; racemes corymbed; three of the calyx-lobes ridged in the middle. Cult, and waste grounds. P. Convolvulus. 80. LAUREL FAMILY. Order LAURACEvE. Trees or slirnbs, with spicy bark and leaves; the latter marked "svith transparent dots â under a magnifjing-glass, alternate and simple ; the calyx of 6 petal-like sepals. Stamens 9 or 12 on the very bot- tom of the calyx ; the anthers opening by up- lifted valves. Pistil sim- ple, with a one-celled ovarv, in fruit formin<j a berry or drupe, one- seeded. â¦Flowers gener- ally polygamous or dioe- cious in spring. â Aveiy well-marked family, most- 486 43, 485 487 1}' 'm hot couutrics, but 4S4. Sterile fiovver of Sassafras. 485. Fertile flower of Hie same. 483 Mn2iufiecl_st^men, We pOSSCSS tWO Or turce with (wo ."/"TJcf.â at lite
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