. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 135 1. Common Flax. Root annual; leaves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. L. usiiciiissimum. 2. VinGiNiA Flax. Koot perennial; leaves oblong or lance-shaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. Virginidnuvi- 22. WOOD-SOEREL FAMILY. Order 0XALIDACEJ5. Small herbs with sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in the Flax fa
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 135 1. Common Flax. Root annual; leaves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. L. usiiciiissimum. 2. VinGiNiA Flax. Koot perennial; leaves oblong or lance-shaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. Virginidnuvi- 22. WOOD-SOEREL FAMILY. Order 0XALIDACEJ5. Small herbs with sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in the Flax family, but with 10 stamens, a 5-celled pod, and two or more seeds in each celL One genus, viz. Wood-Sorrel. Oxalis. Sepals, petals, and styles 5. Stamens 10; filaments united (monadelphous) at the base. Pod thin, 5-lobed. Leaflets obcordate. Flowering in summer. 1. Common W. One-flowered scape and leaves rising from a scaly rootstock, hairy; white with reddish veins. N. in cold and moist woods. 2. Violet W. Several-flowered scape and Ifeaves, from a scaly bulb; petals violet. 3. Yellow AV. Stems ascending, leafy; flowers 2 to 6 on one peduncle, small, yellow. petals large, 0. Acetosella. 0' violacea, 0. siricta. 23. GERANIUM FAMILY. Order GERANIACEiE. Herbs or small shrubs, with scented leaves, having stipules, the lower ones opposite. Roots astringent. Sepals 5, overlapping. Petals 5. Stamens 10, but part of them in some cases without anthers : fila- ments commonly united at the bottom. Pistils 5 grown into one, that is, all united to a long beak of the receptacle (except the 5 stigmas); and when the fruit is ripe the styles split away from the beak and curl up or twist, carrying with them the five lit- tle one-seeded pods, as shown in Fig. 334. — There are three genera, viz. Geranium or Cranesbill; Erodium, which diifers in having only 5 stamens with anthers, and the fruit-bearing styles bearded inside; and Pelargonium, which has the corolla more or less irregular, generally
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