. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 139 3-17 ^44 3:5 Z4Q 30. STAFF-TFiEI] FAMILY. Order Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves; the divisions of the calyx and the petals both overlapping in the bud; the stamens as many as the petals (1 or 5) and alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptiicle (disk) Aviiich fills the bottom of the calyx. Pod colored, o
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 139 3-17 ^44 3:5 Z4Q 30. STAFF-TFiEI] FAMILY. Order Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves; the divisions of the calyx and the petals both overlapping in the bud; the stamens as many as the petals (1 or 5) and alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptiicle (disk) Aviiich fills the bottom of the calyx. Pod colored, of 2 to 5 mostly one-seeded cells, showy Avhen ripe iu autumn, especially when they open and display the seeds enveloped in a pulpy scarlet aril. Flowers polygamous or nearly dioeciou?, wlilte, in racemes: disk cup-shaped: style long. Fod globular, orange-yellow. Leaves alternate. Our only species is a tv/in- ing shrub, sometimes called Bittersweet, (Celdsinis) "Waxwork. Ou-oif-Un^ Flowers perfect, flat, dull green or dark purple, in axillary racemes: disk flat, covering the ovary, and bearing 4 or 5 very short stamens, the short style just rising through it. Pods red, lobed. Shrubs: leaves opposite, {Euonymiis) Pods smooth, strongly lobed, '^r Spixdlk-tkee. Pods roundish, rough, {Euonymus) STUAWiiEiiKY-uutJir. A-GiteX 31. SOAPBERRY FAMILY. Order SAPIXDACEiE. The proper Soapberry family belongs mostly to warmer climates ; bnt wo have shrubs and trees belonir- ing to three of its sub- families: L DLADDERNUT Sur- fa:mily. Flowers regular and perfect. Stamens 5, as many as the petals, and alternate with them. Seeds bony. Leaves opposite, pinnate or with 3 leaflets, having stipule?, and also little stipules (st'tpels) to the leaflets. Shrub: flowers white in racemes. Fruit of 3 bladdery pods united. {StcqjJvjlki) Bladdekxut. II. HORSECHESTNUT Subfamily. Flowers po- lygamous, some of them having no good pistil, mostly irregular and unsymmetrical. Calyx bell-shaped
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