. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. roiu'LAK ri-oi{A. 135 Ciilyx 2-lciivcd, free from the ovary, whiili inuk.'s a f<'w-«ee<U(l ji'mI, splitting into 3 valves. .Stamens 5, one before each petal. Leaves 2 autl opposite in our species, on a stem which coMies from a small tuber. Flowers rose-colour, in a niceme. opiiiinu; for several days. (Cla^tuiiM) Sl' ?A. I'ml dI iIic sit , hih'imii;,' liy 11 lid. 3


. 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. Botany; Ferns; Botanique; Fougères. roiu'LAK ri-oi{A. 135 Ciilyx 2-lciivcd, free from the ovary, whiili inuk.'s a f<'w-«ee<U(l ji'mI, splitting into 3 valves. .Stamens 5, one before each petal. Leaves 2 autl opposite in our species, on a stem which coMies from a small tuber. Flowers rose-colour, in a niceme. opiiiinu; for several days. (Cla^tuiiM) Sl' ?A. I'ml dI iIic sit , hih'imii;,' liy 11 lid. 311. ;! (if .Siiiiii:,'-l;oaiiiy. ;il'J. lis '.'-rlcft calyx and pud. "i:i. liipt! iKid I'lit ss, and .;iii; intn tlmi- Viilvi'i 314. Seed, iiiviie iMii^ ;!;). .â 'aiiif, eiit tliiinij;li, in sliovv lln-(â¢â lilcd eiidiryo. .Slti. Iinbiyo taken uut. 17. MALLOW FAMILY. Order Distinguished by the imnu'io'.is moudih'lphinis staiiien>(i'.t'.,imitctl hy tlieir into a ttibe or t'o(((7/u(), witii kidiU'y-siiupL'd i-celled fintiiers, and tlic 5 sejials or lobes of the calyx aj)iilied edL;o to edge wiiliout overlapping {, rulcute) in tlie bud, ami peisi-teiit. Leaves almost always ])aluiately-veiiied, alternate, wiih stipules. IVtals united at the bot- toni with the tube ot" stamens. There is ol'ten a sort of (Miter calyx, below the true one, called an inroluccL All innocent plants, full of mucilagf (it is extracted Iroin the root of M;u>h-Mallow), and with a very tough fibrous inner bark. Floweis ol'ieii han<isome. Anthers all at the top of tlie column of united filaments (Fig. 317). Involucel or outer calyx present. Cells of the fruit many in a ring, spp!irating whole when ripe, i-seeded. Involucel g-parted. Separated little pods marginless. Plant soft-downy : root perennial, {A') M.\|{SH-M.\)W. Involucel about 6-parted. Separated pods with membranaceous margins Plants tall, roughish :


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