. 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. POPULAK FLORA. 119 4. MOONSEED FAMILY. Order MENISPERMACE^. Woody climbers, with alternate leaves and small dioecious flowers (as shown in Fig. 167, 168) ; the sepals and petals each 4 or 6 and both of the same color, and a few one-seeded pistils, becoming small drupes in fruit, with a moon-shaped or kidney-shaped stone. We have two genera of one snecies each, the first comm
. 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. POPULAK FLORA. 119 4. MOONSEED FAMILY. Order MENISPERMACE^. Woody climbers, with alternate leaves and small dioecious flowers (as shown in Fig. 167, 168) ; the sepals and petals each 4 or 6 and both of the same color, and a few one-seeded pistils, becoming small drupes in fruit, with a moon-shaped or kidney-shaped stone. We have two genera of one snecies each, the first common at the North, the second at the South. 1. Stamens 12 to 20 : pistils 2 to 4. Flowers white : leaves rounded and angled shield-shaped. Fruit blue-black, {Menispermum) Moonsekd. 2. Stamens 6, one before each petal. Flowers greenish: leaves heart-shaped. (Cdccnlus) CoccuLus. 5. BARBERRY FAMILY. Order BERBERIDACE-S;. Readily distinguished (with a single exception) by having the sepals and petals in fours, sixes, or eights (not in fives), and with just the same number of stamens as petals, one before each petal (on the receptacle), the anthers opening by an uplifted valve or door on each side. Pistil only one. Harm- less, except the May-Apple (also called Mandrake), which has rather poisonous roots, although the fruit is innocent and eata- ble. Having only one species of each genus, we may ascertain them by the following key : — 265. Shoot ; 266. cluster of leaves and raceme ; 267. enlarged flower spread open ; 268. a petal more magnified ; and, 269. a stamen, vith the anther opening, of the common Barberry. Shrubs with yellow bark and wood, and yellow flowers. Stamens and petals 6. Leaves appearing simple, in a cluster above a branching thorn, which is an altered leaf of the year before. Berries red, (Berberis) Barberry Leaves scattered, pinnate, evergreen: no thorns. Berries blue, (Mahdnia) *MAHomA. Herbs,with perennial roots, all with compound or deeply lobed leaves. Flowers
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