. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLOBA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-beret. Leaves ovate, poiDted, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentago. 3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining j otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. Y. prunifblimn. 4. Abeow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, st
. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLOBA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-beret. Leaves ovate, poiDted, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Lentago. 3. Black-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining j otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. Y. prunifblimn. 4. Abeow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straight veins, smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bi:ight blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dentcUum. 5. Maple-leaved V. or Dockmackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, downy beneath; cymes long-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. aceriJ^dUum. * * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white (just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 6. Snowball V. or Ceanbeeey-teee. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, sour. Swamps, N. — The Snowball-teee or Gueldee-Kosb is a cultivated state of this, with all the flowers become neutral. V. Opulus. 7. Hobblebush v. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or heart-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. Damp woods, N. V. lantaitMea. 47. MADDER TAMILY. Order RUBIACEJE. Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate with its lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent); and the leaves in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between 393. Piece of Madder, In flower. 394. Half of a flower, mftgnilied. 395. Young fruita. 396. Eipe fruit. 397. Common Bluela. 398. Section of a flower lejigthwiee, magnified, and tlie corolia laid open. 399. open, and ttie style. Corolla of another
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