. 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. IGO POPULAR FLORA. 4. Saesapakilla a. Roots very long and slender, horizontal (used as a pubstitnte for sarsaparilla); the compound long-stalked leaf, and the naked flower-stalk bearing few umbels, rising separately from the ground, liloist woods. A. nudicaulis. Ginseng. Aralia, § Ginseng. Styles 2 or 3. Flowers white. Berries red or reddish when ripe. Low herbs â with simple stems
. 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. IGO POPULAR FLORA. 4. Saesapakilla a. Roots very long and slender, horizontal (used as a pubstitnte for sarsaparilla); the compound long-stalked leaf, and the naked flower-stalk bearing few umbels, rising separately from the ground, liloist woods. A. nudicaulis. Ginseng. Aralia, § Ginseng. Styles 2 or 3. Flowers white. Berries red or reddish when ripe. Low herbs â with simple stems, bearing at the top a whorl of leaves and one long-stalked umbel. 1. True Gixsej^g. Root long and large, warm-aromatic; leaflets 5. Rich woods, N. A. gmnquefuUa. 2. DwAKF G. (or Groundnut). Root round, sharp-tasted; leaflets 3 or 5; stem 4'to 6'high. Damp woods, N. FI. spring. A. trifblla. 45. CORNEL FAMILY. Order CORNACE^. Shrubs or trees (except our Dwarf Cornel), the calyx coherent with the ovary, which makes a berry-like stone-fruit; represented (except by the Tupelo or Pepperidge-tree, Nijssa^ here omitted) only by the genus 1. Cornel (or Dogwood). Cornus. Petals 4 and stamens 4, on the ovary. Teeth of the calyx 4, very small. Style 1. Ovary 2-celled, in fruit berry-like with a 2-seeded stone. Leaves entire, opposite, except in No. 7. Flowers in spring or early summer. * Flowers greenish, in a head, which is surrounded by a 4-leaved involucre resembling a large white corolla ; fruit bright red. 1. Dwarf Cornel (or Bunchberry). Herb low, Avith 4 or 6 leaves near the top. Damp woods. C Canadensis. 2. Flowering C. or Dogwood. Tree; leaves of the co- rolla-hke involucre obcordate. * * Flowers white, in flat and open cymes: shrubs 5. Round-leaved C. Branches greenish, warty-dotted ; leaves round-oval, woolly beneath ; fruit pale blue. Woods. C. circinata. 4. Silky C. Branches purple ; young stalks and lower side of the ovate or oblong leaves silky woolly; fruit p
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