. 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. 135 1. Common Flax. Kootfinnual; leaves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. Z. vsifatlssimum. 2. ViKGixiA Flax. Root perennial; leaves oblong or lance-shaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. Virrjinianum. 22. WOOD-SOBREL FAMILY. Order OXALIDACEyE. Small herbs witli sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in the Flax family, bu
. 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. 135 1. Common Flax. Kootfinnual; leaves lance-shaped; flower blue. Cultivated. Z. vsifatlssimum. 2. ViKGixiA Flax. Root perennial; leaves oblong or lance-shaped; flowers very small, yellow. Dry woods. L. Virrjinianum. 22. WOOD-SOBREL FAMILY. Order OXALIDACEyE. Small herbs witli sour juice, compound leaves of three leaflets, and flowers nearly as in the Flax family, but with 10 stamens, a 5-celled ];)od, and two or more seeds in each cell. One genus, viz. "Wood-Sorrel. Oxalis. Sepals, petals, and styles 5. Stamens 10; filaments united (monadelphous) at the base. Pod thin, 5-lobed. Leaflets obcordate. Flowering in summer. 1. Common W. One-flowered scape and leaves rising from a scaly rootstock, hairy; petals large, white with reddish veins. N. in cold and moist woods. 0. Aceiosella. 2. Violet W. Several-flowered scape and leaves, from a scaly bulb; petals violet. 0. violacea. 3. Yellow "W. Stems ascending, leafy; flowers 2 to 6 on one peduncle, small, yellow. 0. siricta. 23. GERAlSriUM FAMILY. Order GERANIACEiE. Herbs or small shrubs, with scented leaves, having stipules, the lower ones opposite. Hoots astringent. Sepals 5, overlapping. Petals 5. Stamens 10, but part of them in some cases without anthers : fila- ments commonly united at the bottom. Pistils 5 grown into one, that is, all united to a lono; beak of the receptacle (except the 5 stigmas) ; and when the fruit is ripe the styles split away from the beak and curl up or twist, carrying with them the five lit- tle one-seeded pods, as shown in Fig. 334. — There are three genera, viz. Geranium or Cranesbill; Erodium, which differs in havinn; only 5 stamens with anthers, and the fruit-bearinji stvles bearded inside; and Pelargonium, which has the corolla more or less irregular
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