. 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. 172 POPULAK FLORA. WiNTERBERRY H. Or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prinos. I. verticillaia. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACEiE. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, whicli deserves notice, viz.:
. 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. 172 POPULAK FLORA. WiNTERBERRY H. Or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prinos. I. verticillaia. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACEiE. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, whicli deserves notice, viz.: •— 423 Persimmon. JHospyroi. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; in their axils some trees bear clustered stamina^e flowers, with a 4-cleft corolla and about 16 stamens; others single and larger perfect flowers, with a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens. Calyx 4-cleft, rather large, thickish. Corolla pale yel- low. Pistil one, with 4 styles: the ovary ripening into a plum-like fruit, which is very astringent when green, but sweet and yellow and eatable after frosts, con- 422 ,25 ,24 taining 8 large and bony flat seeds. ?22. Ferule flower. 423. Corolla and elamens of Ihe same, laid open. D. Viroinidna. 424. Fruil. 425. Section of Ibe 56. PLANTAIN FAMILY. Order PLANTAGINACEJE. Consists mainly of the genus of low stemless herbs called Plantain (or Rib-Grass). Plantago. Flowers greenish, on a scape, in a close spike. — Calyx of 4 persistent sepals. Corolla salver-shaped, thin, withering on the pod, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, generally with very long and weak filaments, borne on the corolla. Style and stigma one, slender. Pod 2-celled, opening crosswise, the top falling off as a, lid, the loose partition faUing out with the seeds. Leaves generally with strong ribs. 1. Common Plantain. Leaves ovate or slightly heart-shaped, several-ribbed; seeds 7 to 16. P. major. 2. Virginia P. Small (2' to 7' high), hairy; leaves oblong, 3-6-ribbed; seeds 2. P. Virffinica, 3. English P. or Eippl
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