. 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. 124 POPULAR FLORA. Dicentra. Dicentra (wrongly called Dielytrd). The species are perennials with singular and handsome flowers in racemes, blossoming in spring. * Wild species, in rich woods; the decompound and finely cut leaves and naked flower-stalk rising separately from the ground, in early spring. Delicate low plants, chiefly found N. & \^. 1. Dutciimak's Breeches D. (Fig.
. 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. 124 POPULAR FLORA. Dicentra. Dicentra (wrongly called Dielytrd). The species are perennials with singular and handsome flowers in racemes, blossoming in spring. * Wild species, in rich woods; the decompound and finely cut leaves and naked flower-stalk rising separately from the ground, in early spring. Delicate low plants, chiefly found N. & \^. 1. Dutciimak's Breeches D. (Fig. 282-286.) Herbage from a sort of bulb, of coarse grains; corolla Avhite, tipped with cream-color, with 2 very large spurs. D. Cucullaria. 2. Squihrel-Corn D. Underground shoots bearing little yellow tuber-like bodies, resembling grains of Indian Corn; corolla white and flesh-color, fragrant like Hyacinths. D. Canadensis. * * Garden species, leafy-stemmed, 2"^ or 3° high, with Peony-like leaves. 3. Showy D. Racemes drooping, one-sided; flowers pink-purple, 1' long. Cultivated. D. specidbilis. Corydal. Corydalls. Our two species are leafy-stemmed biennials, glaucous, with twice-pmnate leaves, and linear or .slender pods. They grow in rocky places and flower in spring and summer. 1. Golden C. Low and spreading; flowers yellow in simple racemes; pods hanging. C. aurea. 2. Pale C. Upright; flowers purplish and yellowish; racemes panicled; pods erect. C. glauca. 10. CRUCIFEROUS OR CRESS FAMILY. Order CRUCIFEK^E. Herbs, with alternate leaves, a sharp-tasted â watery juice (never poisonous, but often very acrid or biting) ; perfectly distinguished by their cruciferous flowers, tetradjnamous stamens, and by having the sort of pod called a silique or silicle (240, 241). The flower is called cruciferous because the 4 petals, with claws enclosed in tne 4-sepalled calyx, have their blade spreading so as to form the four arms of a cross. As to the stamens, they are 6 in number (on t
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