. 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. 181 4. Narrow-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lanoe-oblong or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. E. and S. S. integrifblia. * * * Flowers single, in tlie axils of the leaves. 6. Dwarf S. Minutely downy, 3' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, i' long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &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. 181 4. Narrow-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lanoe-oblong or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. E. and S. S. integrifblia. * * * Flowers single, in tlie axils of the leaves. 6. Dwarf S. Minutely downy, 3' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, i' long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &;o. S. pdrvula. 6. Slender S. Slender, lo or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly heart- shaped base, sessile; flowers 5' long. Wet woods. S. galericulata. 64. BORRAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACEiE. Herbs with alternate entire leaves, not aromatic, commonly rough: the flowers regular, with a 5-leave(l caly.\, 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-lobed ovary, making 4 akenes. Flowers generally in one- sided raueme-like clusters, coiled up at the tip, and unfolding as the blossoms Innocent mucila- ginous and slightly bitter plants, the roots of some species yielding a red dye. iA5. Br;inch of Forget-me-not, in flower. 446. Tlie laid open, with tlie itiimene. ina|rnifletl 447. The pistil with its 4-lobed ovaiy ; calyx, Ac. cat aWHy. 448. Two of the ripe nkenes in the cnlyx; the two sepals towartls the eye and two of the ukenea removed. 449. Akene cut through lengthwise, mn^nified ; the whole kernel embryo. 4oO Flowers of 451. Corolla enlarged, laid open, show- ing the sharp scales Inside, and the stamens. * Ovary 4-parted, making 4 akenes around the base of the style. Akenes or lobes erect, fixed by the lower end, separate from the style, not prickly. Corolla somewhat irregular {the lobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). Its throat naked and open: stamens protruding, rather unequal, (E
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