. 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. loG POPULAR FLOKA. 1. Gardkn Gooseberry. Thorns large; flower-stalks short; berry bristly or smooth, R. Uva-nnspa. 2. Pkickly Wild G. Thorns slender or none; flowers greenish, long-stalked; stamens and style not projecting; berry prickly; leaves downy. "Woods, N. R. Cyndsbaii. 3. Small Wild G. Thorns very short or none; flowers purplish or greenish, very short-stalked; sta- men
. 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. loG POPULAR FLOKA. 1. Gardkn Gooseberry. Thorns large; flower-stalks short; berry bristly or smooth, R. Uva-nnspa. 2. Pkickly Wild G. Thorns slender or none; flowers greenish, long-stalked; stamens and style not projecting; berry prickly; leaves downy. "Woods, N. R. Cyndsbaii. 3. Small Wild G. Thorns very short or none; flowers purplish or greenish, very short-stalked; sta- mens and 2-cleft style a little projecting; berry small, smooth. Low grounds, N. R. Idrtdbim. 4. Smooth Wild G. Thorns stout or none; flowers greenish, on slender stalks; stamens and the two styles very long and projecting (i' long); berry smooth. W^oods, common W. R. roiundifbUum. CuiTant. Ribes. Stems neither thoniy nor prickly. Flowers in racemes, appearing in early spring. Berries small. 1. Eed Currant. Leaves rounded heart-shaped and somewhat lobed; racemes from lateral separate buds, hanging; flowers flat, greenish or purplish; berry smooth, red, and a white variety. Gar- dens, &c. Wild on Mountains, N. R. riibrum. 2. Fetid C. Stems reclined; leaves deeply heart-shaped, 5-lobed; racemes erect; flowers greenish, flattish; pale red berry and its stalk bristly, strong-smelling. Cold woods, N. R. 2>rostratum. 3. Wild Black C. Leaves on long foot-stalks, slightly heart-shaped, sharply lobed. sprinkled with dots both sides; racemes rather drooping; flowers oblong, yellowish-white; berries oblong, black, rather spicy. Wooded banks. 4. Garden Black C. Leaves on shorter footstalks, less dotted; racemes looser, and black berries larger than in No. 3. Gardens. R. nujrum. 5. Missouri or Buffalo C. Leaves smooth; racemes with leafy bracts; flowers (calyx) long and tubular, bright yellow, spicy-fragrant. Cultivated for ornament. R. aiireunu 41. STONECROP FAMILY. Order C
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