. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 181 4. Narrow-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, lo or 2° high; leaves lance-oblong or liu«ar, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. £. and S. 8. integtijolia. * * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. B. DwARP S. Minutely downy, 8' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, i' long. Dry or sandy banks o
. How plants grow [microform] : a simple introduction to structural botany : with a popular flora, or an arrangement and description of common plants, both wild and cultivated : illustrated by 500 wood engravings. Botany; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 181 4. Narrow-leaved S. Minutely hoary or downy, slender, lo or 2° high; leaves lance-oblong or liu«ar, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. £. and S. 8. integtijolia. * * * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. B. DwARP S. Minutely downy, 8' to 6' high; leaves round-ovate or the upper lance-ovate, entire, i' long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, &c. 8. parvula. 6. Slender S. Slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly heart- shaped base, sessile; flowers 3'long. Wet woods. 8. gaknculata. 64. BOBBAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACE^.. Herbs with alternate entire leaves, not aromatic, commonly rough: the flowers regular, with a 5-leave(I calyx, 5-lobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-lobed ovary, making 4 akenes. Flowers generally in one- sided raceme-like clusters, coiled up at the tip, and unfolding as the blossoms expand. Innocent mucila- ^nous and slightly bitter plants, the roots of some species yielding a red dye. ;*. '\.:. 44!) 445. Branch ofFarnt-ine-nol, in flower. 446. Tlie curolla Ittid open, wiih ibe â tameni. maznilied 447. Tht piMil with iti 4-lob«d ovary ; calyi, Ac, cut awajr. 448. Two of ihd ripe akeno in the calyx; the two â¢epale towaiilt the eye and two of the aiienes removed, 449. Aken* cut through lenphwiie, maznifled j the whole kernel embryo. 45U. Floweri of Comfrey. 451. Corolla enlarg^fd, laid open, ehnw- inc the abarp icalea iuiide, and the â¢lament. * 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 iobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). Its throat naked and o
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