. 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. 188 POPULAR FLORA. the other out) ; the 5 stamens on the corolla alternate with its lobes; the anthers generally more or less adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2 ; but the stigmas, and often the styles also, united into one ; the fruit two separate pods. Seeds generally many, and with a tuft of down at one end. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and a wheel-shaped 5-pavted border: styl
. 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. 188 POPULAR FLORA. the other out) ; the 5 stamens on the corolla alternate with its lobes; the anthers generally more or less adherent to the stigma. Ovaries 2 ; but the stigmas, and often the styles also, united into one ; the fruit two separate pods. Seeds generally many, and with a tuft of down at one end. Corolla with a funnel-shaped tube and a wheel-shaped 5-pavted border: style one. Leaves generally in whorls. Shrub, with large rose-colored flowers, {Nerium) *Oleander. Leaves opposite, evergreen in the common creeping species. Fl. blue, ( Vinca) *Peuiwinkle. Leaves alternate, very many, nari'ow. Erect herbs with pale-blue salver-shaped flow- ers: seeds not tufted, {Amsbnia) Amsonia. Corolla bell-shaped, white or pinkish: style none. Herbs, with opposite leaves. {Ajjocynum) Dogbank. Dogbane. Ajwcynum. 1. Spreading D. Branches of the low erect stem widely diverging; leaves ovate or oval; cymes few- flowered ; lobes of corol- la recurved; tube shorter than the calj'x. Thickets, &c. A. androscemifbllum. 2. Hemp D. or Indian Hemp. Stem and branches erect or ascending; cymes few- flowered ; lobes of the co- rolla not recurved, the tube not longer than the calyx. A. canndbinum. 463. Summit of a plant of Dogbane, No. 1, with flowers and pods. 467. Floweis, enlarged. 4aS. Flower wiih the corolla cut , \f> show the stamens. 469. The stiiniens taken away, to show the pistils; two ovaries, wiili their two • targe stigmas united into one mass. 470. A seed, with Us tuft of long liairs ' or down at one 71. MILKWEED Fx\MILY. Order ASCLEPIADACE^. Plants with milky juice, tough bark, and in other respects like the Dogbane family, but •with the 5 short stamens all united by their filaments into a rino- or tube, the anthers m'own fast to the large
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