. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLOEA. 117 2. MAGNOLIA FAMILY. Order MAGNGLIACBJE. Trees or shrubs, with aromatic or strong-scented and bitter bark, and alternate simple leaves, which are never toothed; large, thin stipules form the covering of the buds, but fall off early. Flowers large, single at the ends of the branches; their leaves in threes, viz. 3 sepals colore
. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLOEA. 117 2. MAGNOLIA FAMILY. Order MAGNGLIACBJE. Trees or shrubs, with aromatic or strong-scented and bitter bark, and alternate simple leaves, which are never toothed; large, thin stipules form the covering of the buds, but fall off early. Flowers large, single at the ends of the branches; their leaves in threes, viz. 3 sepals colored like the petals, and 6 petals in two ranks or 9 in three ranks, their margins overlapping in the bud. Stamens very many, on the receptacle, with long anthers occupying? as it were, the side of the filament. Pistils many, packed and partly grown- together one above the other, so as to make a sort of cone in fruit. â We have only two genera. 1. Stipules flat, not adhering to the leafstalk. Petals 6, greenish-or- ange. Filaments slender. Pistils overlying each other and grown to- gether to make a spindle-shaped cone, dry when ripe, and sepa- rating -into a sort of key-fruit. â Leaves somewhat 3-lobed, and as If cut off at the end. One species only is known, the (LXriodendron Tulipifera) Tulip-teee. 2. Stipules making a round and pointed bud, adhering to the lower part of the leaf-stalk. Petals 6 to 9. Fil- aments below the anther very short. Cone of fruit rose-red and fleshy wheu ripe, the pistils opening on the back, the scarlet fleshy-coated seeds banging by delicate and very elastic threads, S56. Small Laurel-Magnolia. S57. A atamen magnified. S58. Its cone of fruit, the seeds hungmg as they drop. Magnolia. Magnblia. Our wild species divide into Laurel-Magnolias, Cucumber-trees, and Umbrella-trees. § 1. LAUREL-MAGNOLIAS. Leaves thick, evergreen at the South; leaf-buds silky; flowers rather globe-shaped, appearing through the summer, white, very fragrant 1. Gre
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