. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 127 8. Lance-leaved Violet. Leaves lanoe-shaped, erect, smooth; petals not bearded. Y. lanceolata. â i-n-t ++ Flowers light yellow, small. 9. EouND-LEAVED V. Loaves round ovate and heart-shaped, spreading flat on the ground; sidfe- petals bearded and brown-streaked inside. Cold woods, N. V. rotwadifoUa. * * Leafy-stemmed species.
. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 127 8. Lance-leaved Violet. Leaves lanoe-shaped, erect, smooth; petals not bearded. Y. lanceolata. â i-n-t ++ Flowers light yellow, small. 9. EouND-LEAVED V. Loaves round ovate and heart-shaped, spreading flat on the ground; sidfe- petals bearded and brown-streaked inside. Cold woods, N. V. rotwadifoUa. * * Leafy-stemmed species. ' +- 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. roslrata. 11. Muhlenberg's V. Low, spreading by runners; spur stout, not more than half the length of the pale violet corolla. Wet woods. V. MuhleniergH. 12. Pale V. Spur much shorter than the cream-colored corolla; lower petal streakeff. V. striata. 13. Canada V. Tall; petals white above, violet-tinged beneath; spur very short. V. Catiadensis, 14. Downy V. Tail, leafless below, downy; corolla yellow, spur very short. V.'piiiescent. ^- H- 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, pinnatifld; 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 FAMILY. Order CISTACE^. 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 oflf at sunset. Here it contains only a few less handsome, or homely, weed-like plants. They may be known by the following 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 lat
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