. The elements of botany embracing organography, histology, vegetable physiology, systematic botany and economic botany ... together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. Botany. 230 SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. tbe great lakes; its wood is white, and prized for pump logs, wooden bowls, and a variety of other purposes. Other species of the genus, as the Umbrella-trees (Jf. Umbrella, M. mttCTophylla), Sweet Bay (Jf. glauoa), etc., are planted for ornament wherever they can endure the winters. - The Tulip-tree, or Yellow Poplar (JLiriodendron Tulipifera), is a grand forest tree of the Eastern Unite
. The elements of botany embracing organography, histology, vegetable physiology, systematic botany and economic botany ... together with a complete glossary of botanical terms. Botany. 230 SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. tbe great lakes; its wood is white, and prized for pump logs, wooden bowls, and a variety of other purposes. Other species of the genus, as the Umbrella-trees (Jf. Umbrella, M. mttCTophylla), Sweet Bay (Jf. glauoa), etc., are planted for ornament wherever they can endure the winters. - The Tulip-tree, or Yellow Poplar (JLiriodendron Tulipifera), is a grand forest tree of the Eastern United States, attaining at times a height of one hundred and forty feet, and a diameter of nine feet; it furnishes a light, yellowish wood, used very extensively in cabinet-making, and a variety of other purposes. It is much prized as an ornamental tree for parks, or where sufficient space permits it to assume a beautiful and regularly conical form; the tulip-like flower, as well as the foliage, is very handsome. 32. Ranunculaceae. The Crowfoot family. Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves generally alternate or radical. Sepals and petals each five; stamens many, pistils gener- ally many, not united. Species about five hundred, many of which were formerly considered medicinal, yet but few are used to-day. Wolfsbane, called also Monkshood {Aeonitum Napel- his), of Europe furnishes the drug Aconite. The natives of India poison their arrows with a virulent poison obtained from 341 A. ferox. From the Black, Foetid, and Green Hellebores (^Helleborus niger, fodidus, and viridis) drastic and poison- ous drugs are obtained. .Many plants of this family are ^ Fig. 341. Clematis 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 Kellerman, William Ashbrook, 1850-1908. Philadelphia, J. E. Potter and Company
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