. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 690 Oedbb 97.—ABCLKPIADACB^. setaceous, elongated.—Shrub with numeroua, slender, straggling branches, Very leafy, forming light masses of evergreen foliage, flourishing best beneath the sha(le of other plants. Leaves 2 to 3' in length, shining, rounded or somewhat cordate at base. Flowers blue, appearing in May and June, f Eur. 5. WE'RIUffl, L. Oleander. (Gr. vrjpb^, damp; referring to the locality of the plants.) Calyx with
. Class-book of botany : being outlines of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants ; with a flora of the United States and Canada . Botany; Botany; Botany. 690 Oedbb 97.—ABCLKPIADACB^. setaceous, elongated.—Shrub with numeroua, slender, straggling branches, Very leafy, forming light masses of evergreen foliage, flourishing best beneath the sha(le of other plants. Leaves 2 to 3' in length, shining, rounded or somewhat cordate at base. Flowers blue, appearing in May and June, f Eur. 5. WE'RIUffl, L. Oleander. (Gr. vrjpb^, damp; referring to the locality of the plants.) Calyx with S teeth at the base outside of the corolla; corolla hypoorateriform, segments contorted, orifice with a corona consisting of 6, laoiniate leaflets ; filaments inserted into the middle of ^the tube; anthers sagittate, adhering to the stigma by the middle.—Oriental shrubs. Lvs. evergreen, opposite or ternate. N. Olednder L. Lvs. lanceolate, acute at each end ; corona segm. of 3 to 4 lance-acuminate teeth.—In the greenhouse and shrubberies. St. regularly branched. Lvs. commonly 3 together, on short stalks, smooth, very entire, cori- aceous, with prominent, transverse veins beneath. Pis. terminal, corymbcus, large and beautiful rose-colored. One variety has white flowers, another varie- gated, and a third double. This splendid shrub is common in Palestine (Rev. S. Hebard), growing by rivulets, &c. It is supposed to be the plant to which the Psalmist alludes, Ps. i. 3, and xxxvii. 35. Order XCVII. ASCLEPIADACE^. Asclepiads. Plcmts (chiefly herbs in the United States) with n mUky juice, often twining. Leaves opposite (rarely whorled or scattered), l6 without stipules, entire, ii'towers generally umbellate, 5-parted, regular, the sepals and iV^^ rS SI y^^^^^^P'^^i^^ ^^° *^® petafe united at base, both valvate C^ I if /^^^zJJ' v^ /p*™^ in estivation. Stamens united, adherent to and covering the fleshy mass of the two united stigmas. Pollen cohering in masse
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