. 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. 146 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Maryland Senn'A. Root perennial; stems 3° or 4° high; leaflets 6 to 9 pairs, lance-oblong, 1' or more long, used for medicine instead of the unported senna. Rich soil. C. Murilundica. 2- Partkidge-Pea S. Annual, low, spreading; leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, linear-oblong, 5'long; flowers large and showy; anthers 10, six of them purple, Sandy fields. C Chamcecnsta.
. 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. 146 POPULAR FLORA. 1. Maryland Senn'A. Root perennial; stems 3° or 4° high; leaflets 6 to 9 pairs, lance-oblong, 1' or more long, used for medicine instead of the unported senna. Rich soil. C. Murilundica. 2- Partkidge-Pea S. Annual, low, spreading; leaflets 10 to 15 pairs, linear-oblong, 5'long; flowers large and showy; anthers 10, six of them purple, Sandy fields. C Chamcecnsta. 8. Sensitive S. Flowers small, short-stalked; anthers only 5: otherwise like the last. C. nktitans. 33. ROSE FAMILY. Order A large and most important family of plants, distinguished by having alternate leaves with stipules, and regular flowers; their generally 5 petals (sometimes wanting) and sta- mens (generally numerous, at least above 10) inserted on the persistent cah'x. The seeds are few and their â whole kernel is embrvo, as is seen in an almond (Fig. 36), Apple-seed, or Cherry-seed (Fig. 38), &c. The family furnishes some of our most esteemed fruits: all the plants are innocent, except the strong-scented folia"-e and bark, in the Almond sub- familv. For fiijures illustratinfr this family, see those of Cherry-blossom (Fig. 193), Hawthorn-blossom (Fig. 194), the fruit of Apple and Quince, (Fig. 200 and 201), Peach (Fig. 202), Rose and Strawberry (Fig. 220 - 222), and the annexed figures. I. AL]\IOND Subfamily. Pistil only one, free from the calyx, becoming a stone-fruit. âTrees or fihrubs Avith simple leaves ; the bruised bark and foliage with,a peculiar aromatic scent and flavor.â The plants of this division are all ranked under two great genera {Amijfjdabis and Frunus), but under several subgenera, here adopted for the convenience of the common names. Calyx with a rather deep cup. Petals rose or red-purple. Stone of the fruit rough. Flesh of t
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