. 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 FLORA. 207. 3. KoDDiXG T. Ivcaves nearly sessile, rhombic-ovate ; flower small, on a short peduncle curved down under the leaves; petals oblong-ovate, pointed, recurved, wavy. E. & S. T. ca-nuum. 4. EitECT T. or BiUTiiROOT. Leaves sessile, round-rhombic Avith a very abrupt point; flower on a nearly upright pe- duncle; petals ovate, acutish, spreading, dull purple or some
. 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 FLORA. 207. 3. KoDDiXG T. Ivcaves nearly sessile, rhombic-ovate ; flower small, on a short peduncle curved down under the leaves; petals oblong-ovate, pointed, recurved, wavy. E. & S. T. ca-nuum. 4. EitECT T. or BiUTiiROOT. Leaves sessile, round-rhombic Avith a very abrupt point; flower on a nearly upright pe- duncle; petals ovate, acutish, spreading, dull purple or some- times greenish-white. Common N. T. erectiim. 6. Great-klowered T. Leaves and peduncle nearly as in Ko. 4; petals obovate, erect at the base, then gradually spreading much longer and broader than the sepals, white, turning rose-color when old. N. and \V. T. (jrandijlbrum. 6. Painted T. Leaves petioled, pale green, ovate, taper-pointed; flower on an iipright peduncle; petals lance-ovate, point- ed, Avideiy spreading, longer than the sepals, wavy, white, adorned with delicate pink-purple stripes at the base. Cold damp Avoods, (S:c. N. T. eriithrocarpiim. ' '^ ^ 505. Flowe. ol" Trillium, natural » fi-r â Indian Cucumlier-root. Medeola. Stem 1° to 3° high, from a white tnberous horizontal rootstock, having the taste of a cucumber, bearing near the middle a whorl of 5 to 9 obovate-lanceolatc pointed sessile leaves, and at the top one of 3 ovate smaller leaves, and a few small greenish-yellow flowers in an umbel, on recurved stalks. Sepals and petals each 3, oblong and alike, recurved. Stamens G: filaments longer than the anthers. Stigmas 3, sessile, long and thread-shaped. Ovary one, making a round S-celled and few-seeded berry. One species, in damp woods; flowering in summer. J/. Virginica. 95. SPIDSRWORT FAMILY. Order COMMELYNACEyE. Tender herbs, with alternate parallel-veined leaves sheathing at the base, and perfect flowers, having 3 green or greenish sepals
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