. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. Order 158.— 415 branchlets crowded, short, 2" wide; leaves crowded, oblong, entire, obtuse, the smaller ones with an uncinate (reflexed) slender point. 1 S. SEHPEXs. Stems prostrate, with hair-like rootlets, !nnate; branchlets short and crowded, 1" wide ; Ivs. crowded, round-ovate, cordate, obtuse, entire, t
. The American botanist and florist: including lessons in the structure, life, and growth of plants; together with a simple analytical flora, descriptive of the native and cultivated plants growing in the Atlantic division of the American union. Botany; Botany. Order 158.— 415 branchlets crowded, short, 2" wide; leaves crowded, oblong, entire, obtuse, the smaller ones with an uncinate (reflexed) slender point. 1 S. SEHPEXs. Stems prostrate, with hair-like rootlets, !nnate; branchlets short and crowded, 1" wide ; Ivs. crowded, round-ovate, cordate, obtuse, entire, the smaller acute. 8 S. DELicATissiMA. Sts. Creeping, 5—8', rooting, filiform, loosely , 1" wide ; leaves ovate, obtuse, ciliate, not crowded, the middle ones scarcely smaller, acute. 9 S. CAULESCENS. Glabrous, suberect, 12—18', 3-4-pinnately branched, fern-like, and lan- ceolate in outline ; branchlets close, 1}" wide ; leaves close, ovate, entire, very acute, the points turned upward ; smaller leaves mucronate ; stem straw-colored. 10 S. WiLLDENovii. Like the last as to stems and branches, but they are finely pubes- cent, and the leaves are less crowded, ovate, and obtuse. 6—12', ovate in outline. lis. EKTTHEOPrs. Stcms red, with scattered, appressed leaves; frond wide-spread, somewhat palmate, with crowded branchlets and leaves, branchlets IJ" wide ; leaves ovate-oblong, oblique, obtuse, ciliate, the smaller with long straight points. 12 S. cuspiDATA. Stem or frond 3—6', densely and somewhat dichotomously branched ; branchlets 1" wide; leaves closely imbricated, all nearly alike, elliptical, ciliate, bristle-pointed, with the point inclined upward.—A variety (perhaps the fertile stems) are lanceolate in outline, 2-3-pinnately branched. 13 S. LEPiDOPHYLLA, EesuTTection Moss, is a roundish ball when dry. In a cup of water it soon expands into a dense circle of dark-green, densely 2-3-pinuate fronds, with innumerable oval, obtuse, enti
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