. 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. 195 81. MEZEHEUM FAMILY. Order THYMELEACE^. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, free from the simple pistil. O vary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit. —We have one wild plant of the family ; Daphne Mc- zereum is a
. 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. 195 81. MEZEHEUM FAMILY. Order THYMELEACE^. Shrubs, with very tough and acrid bark; entire generally alternate leaves; and perfect flowers, with a tubular calyx colored like a co- rolla, bearing 8 or 10 stamens, free from the simple pistil. O vary one- celled, one-ovuled, mak- ing a berry in fruit. —We have one wild plant of the family ; Daphne Mc- zereum is a hardy low shrub in gardens, and D. odora in houses. Flowers appearing earlier than the leaves. 490. erwoad. 491. Biniicti \M(h TulMiru and 49-2. A flower, miiffiiifiL~.l. A5'i. Sjime, mure magiltfietl, the ctiljx laid upen. Calyx salver-shaped or funnel-shaped, generally rose-color, the border 4-lobed: stamens 8, in two sets, included; filaments hardly any, (Daphne) *Daphne. Calyx tubular, pale yellow, with no spreading border, obscurely 4-toothed: stamens 8, with long protruded filaments, {Dlrca) 82. NETTLE FAMILY. Order URTICACE^. Monoecious, dioecious, or barely polygamous herbs, shrubs, or trees, with stipules, and a regular calyx, free from the ovary, which forms a one-seeded fruit. Divides into four dis- tinct subfamilies which might be reckoned as families, viz.: — I. ELM Subfamily. Trees, with alternate simple leaves, and polygamous or often nearly perfect flowers: styles or long stigmas 2. Ovary 2-celled, a hanging ovule in each cell: stamens 4 to 9. Flowers earlier than the leaves. Fruit a thin key, winged all round, one-seeded (Fig. 207), ( Ulnms) Elm. Ovary one-celled, with one hanging ovule: stamens 5 or 6. Fruit a small drupe. Leaves ovate or heart-shaped, (Celtis) Hackberky. n. BREADFRUIT Subfamily. Trees, with a milky or colored juice, and alternate leaves; the flowers in heads or catkin-like spikes, the fe
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