. 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. c^ 200 POPULAR FLORA. 4. CiiERTtY or Sweet B. Tree, Avitli and pointed leave?, downy on the veins beneath and a close bark, bronze-colored on the twigs, which are spicy-tasted, like the foliage of Check- erberry. Common N. B. Itnlu. 87. SWEET-GALE FAMILY. Order MYRICACE^. Shrubs (generally low), with fragrant alternate leaves; and with catkins much as in the Birch famil
. 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. c^ 200 POPULAR FLORA. 4. CiiERTtY or Sweet B. Tree, Avitli and pointed leave?, downy on the veins beneath and a close bark, bronze-colored on the twigs, which are spicy-tasted, like the foliage of Check- erberry. Common N. B. Itnlu. 87. SWEET-GALE FAMILY. Order MYRICACE^. Shrubs (generally low), with fragrant alternate leaves; and with catkins much as in the Birch family, but short and with only one naked blossom under each scale ; the ovary forming a little nut or dry drupe. Flowers moncecious: fertile catkins round and bur-like: fruit a smooth little nut. Leaves lance-linear, pinnatifid. Fern-like, whence the common name, ( Comjjtdnia) Sweet-Fern. Flowers dioecious: scales of the fertile catkins falling oft*, and leaving only the small round tVuits, Avhich are incrusted Avith wax, and so appear like drupes. Leaves entire or seiTate, {^fl/lâ ^ca). One species in wet grounds, with wedge-lanceolate pale leaves, (M. Gale) Sweet-Gale. One on the sea-coast with lance-oblong, shining leaves, and waxy fruit, {M. cerifera) Baybekuv. 88. WILLOW FAMILY. Order Dioecious trees or slirubs, with both kinds of blossoms in catkins (often earlier than the foliage) ; the flowers naked (without any calyx or corolla), one sort of two or more stamens under a scaly bract; the other of a one-celled pistil with two styles or stigmas, making a many-seeded pod: the seeds bearing a \on<r tuft of down. CD O Leaves alternate and simple: wood soft and light : bark bitter. â The Willows are of very many species, and are much too difficult for tlie beginner. 494. Shoot and catkin of sterile flowers of the Com- moa Wiiiie Willow. 495. A scale separated, wiili us tiower, consisting' of tuo stamens and a little , magnified. 4S6. Shoot and fertile c
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