. 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. 117 2. MAGlSrOLIA FAMILY. Order MAGNOLIACE^. Trees or shrubs, with aromatic or strong-scented and bitter bark, and alternate simple leaves, which are never toothed; large, thin stipules form the covering of the buds, but fall off carlv. Flov/ers larije, sinirlc at the ends of the branches; their leaves in threes, viz. 3 sepals colored like the petals, and G petals in
. 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. 117 2. MAGlSrOLIA FAMILY. Order MAGNOLIACE^. Trees or shrubs, with aromatic or strong-scented and bitter bark, and alternate simple leaves, which are never toothed; large, thin stipules form the covering of the buds, but fall off carlv. Flov/ers larije, sinirlc at the ends of the branches; their leaves in threes, viz. 3 sepals colored like the petals, and G petals in two ranks or 9 in three ranks, their margins overlapping in the bud. Stamens very many, on the receptacle, with long anthers occupying, as it were, the side of the filament. Pistils many, packed and partly grown toijether one abo^•e the other, so as csr to make a sort of cone in fruit. — We have only two genera. 1. Stipules flat, not adhering to the leafstalk. Petals G, greenish-or- anire. Filaments slender. Pistils overlving each other and grown to- gether to make a spindle-shaped cone, dry when ripe, and sepa- rating into a sort of key-fruit. Leaves somewhat 8-lobed, and as if cut off at the end. species only is known, tlie (Liriodcndron Tulijiifcra) TuLir-Ti:EE. 2. Stipules making a round and pointed bud, adhering to the lower part of the leaf-stalk. Petals C to 9. Fil- aments below the anther very short. Cone of fruit rose-red and fleshy when ripe, the pistils opening on the back, the scarlet fleshy-coated seeds hanging by delicate and very 233. Small ,.-,. ZS:. a »tnmen n^a-nifie,!. tSJ. I:s cone of , elastic threads, Magnolia. ^^^ ^"^'^^ iian-in- as th^/ ( Ma2;nolia. MdrjnbUa, Our wild species divide into LaureWIagnolias, Cucumber-trees, and Umbrella-tree?. 4 1. LAUIiEL-MAGXOLIAS. Leaves thick, evergreen at the South; leaf-buds silky; flowers rather globe-shaped, appearing through the summer, white, very fragrant 1. Gi;eat Lauuel-Magno
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