. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 14 THE KINDS OF PLANTS families. More than 100 genera and 1500 species. Eepresentatives are elm, hackberry, mulberry, osage orange, nettle, hop, hemp. A. Trees. B. Fruit a samara 1. Ulmus BB. Fruit a small drupe 2. Celtis BBB. Fruit as large as an orange, formed of the whole mass of the pistillate flower-cluster 3. ToxyJon BBBB. Fruit resembling a blackberry, formed of the pistillate flower-cluster 4. Morus AA. Herbs. B. Leaves digitately lobed or divided. C. Plant standing erect 5. Cannabis cc. Plant twining 6. ffumulus Bb. Leaves not lobed: p
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 14 THE KINDS OF PLANTS families. More than 100 genera and 1500 species. Eepresentatives are elm, hackberry, mulberry, osage orange, nettle, hop, hemp. A. Trees. B. Fruit a samara 1. Ulmus BB. Fruit a small drupe 2. Celtis BBB. Fruit as large as an orange, formed of the whole mass of the pistillate flower-cluster 3. ToxyJon BBBB. Fruit resembling a blackberry, formed of the pistillate flower-cluster 4. Morus AA. Herbs. B. Leaves digitately lobed or divided. C. Plant standing erect 5. Cannabis cc. Plant twining 6. ffumulus Bb. Leaves not lobed: plant with stinging hairs 7. Urtica \. tLMUS. Elm. Trees, mostly large and valuable for timber, with rough-furrowed bark: leaves alternate (2-ranked), ovate and straight-veined, dentate: flowers small and not showy, appearing in earliest spring, sometimes diclinous, the calyx 4-9-parted, the anthers 4-9 on long filaments: ovary generally 2-loculed, ripening into a 1-seeded wing-fruit. a Leaves large, roitgh on the upper surface: fruit large, nearly orbicular. U. fiilva, Michx. Slippery elm. Fig. 448. Middle-sized or small tree with inner bark mucilaginous or " slippery" in spring: leaves 6-8 in. long and half or more as broad, ovate elliptic and unequal-sided, doubly serrate,. 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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York, Macmillan Co.
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