. 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. POPULAR FLOKA. 129 5. CoRYMBED S. Herb 1° to 2° high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblorsg, dotted with black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale j-eUow petals; sepals oblong. Low grounds. //. cory^nhusum. * * * Stamens few, 5 to 15. Styles 3, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in wet or sandy places, 4' to 15' high: flowers ve
. 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. POPULAR FLOKA. 129 5. CoRYMBED S. Herb 1° to 2° high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblorsg, dotted with black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale j-eUow petals; sepals oblong. Low grounds. //. cory^nhusum. * * * Stamens few, 5 to 15. Styles 3, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in wet or sandy places, 4' to 15' high: flowers very small. 6. S. Stem weak, with spreading branches, leafy to the top; leaves ovate or oblong, partly clasping, o-ribbed. H- midilum. 7. Canada S. Branches erect, leaves lance-shaped or linear; cymes leafless. TI. Canadcnse. 8. Pine-weed S. Bushy-branched, the branches wiry and very slender; the leaves very minute, awl-shaped, close-pressed to the branches; flowers minute, sessile along the branches. H. Sarothra. 15. PINK PAMILY. Order CARYOPPIYLLACEiE. Herbs with opposite and entire leaves, wliicli are not dotted, the stems swollen at the joints. Flowers regular, their parts in fives, sometimes in fours. Stamens never more than tw^ice as many as the petals or sepals, and often fewer, on the receptacle or the calyx. Styles or stigmas generally separate, 2 to 5. Fruit a pod, whith is generally one-celled, with the seeds from the bottom or on a central column. These are kidney-shaped, and Lave the embryo on the outside of the albumen, generally coiled around it. — Bland. 306. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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