. 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; Botany. POPULAR FLORA. Passion-FIower. Passijtbra. Sepnls 5, united at tlie base. Petals 5, accoHipaiiieil by a a-omi or ring formed of a double or triple fringe, inserted on tiie base of the calyx. Stamens 5, mona- delphous; the filaments malting a long sheath to the slender stalk of the ovary; this is one-celled and becomes an eata- ble berry, with many seeds in 3 or 4 rows o
. 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; Botany. POPULAR FLORA. Passion-FIower. Passijtbra. Sepnls 5, united at tlie base. Petals 5, accoHipaiiieil by a a-omi or ring formed of a double or triple fringe, inserted on tiie base of the calyx. Stamens 5, mona- delphous; the filaments malting a long sheath to the slender stalk of the ovary; this is one-celled and becomes an eata- ble berry, with many seeds in 3 or 4 rows on its walls. The species are mostly South American; and some large-flowered and handsome ones are cultivated in hot-houses. The early missionaries fancied that they found in these flowers emblems of the implements of our Saviour's passion; the fringe repre- senting the crown of thorns; the large anthers fixed by their middle, hammers; and the 5 styles (tapering below and with large-headed stigmas), the nails. We have two wild species, common S. and W. 37I. No. 1, enlarged. 1. Small P. Leaves bluntly 3-lnbed, otherwise entire; flowers greenish-yellow, 1'wide. 2. Maypop p. Leaves 3-cleft, the lobes serrate; flowers 2' broad, white, with a triple flesh-colored and purple crown; fruit like a hen's egg in shape and size. P. 40. CURRANT FAMILY. Order GKOSSULACE^.. ^" Consists of the C urran ts and Gooseberries, which belong to the same botan- ical genus. Shrubs, with alternate rounded and ra- diate-veined leaves ; the tube of the calyx coherent â with the one-celled ovary, and continued above it into a cup which is often colored, like a corolla, and bears the 5 little petals and 5 stamens. Seeds many, with a pulpy outer coat, borne upon the walls of the berry on two thickened lines (parietal placentas). Garilen Gooseberiy : 372. with flowers ; 373. with fmit. 374. Cup of the caiyx laid open, bearing the 5 little petals and atamena. 375. Tlie
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