. 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. POrULAK FLOKA. 139 30. STAFP-TEEE FAMILY. Order CELASTRACEiE. Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves; the divisions of the calyx and the petals both overlapping in the bud; the stamens as many as the petals (-1 or 5) and alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptacle (disk) which fills the bottom of the cal
. 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. POrULAK FLOKA. 139 30. STAFP-TEEE FAMILY. Order CELASTRACEiE. Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves; the divisions of the calyx and the petals both overlapping in the bud; the stamens as many as the petals (-1 or 5) and alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptacle (disk) which fills the bottom of the calyx. Pod colored, of 2 to 5 mostly oiie-seeded cells, showy when ripe in autumn, especially when they open and display the seeds enveloped in a pulpy scarlet aril. Flowers polygamous or nearly diceoious, white, in racemes: disk cnp-shaped; style long. Pod globular, orange-yellow. Leaves alternate. Our only species is a twin- ing shrub, sometimes called Bittersweet, ( Celdsirus) Waxwork. Flowers perfect, flat, dull green or dark purple, in axillary racemes: disk flat, covering the ovary, and bearing i or 5 very short stamens, the short style just rising through it. Pods red, lobed. Shrubs: leaves opposite, (fij<iK?/mMs) Bukning-bush Pods smooth, strongly lobed, or Spisdle-tree. Pods roundish, rough, (Eudnymus) Strawbekey-bush. 31. SOAPBERIIT FAMILY. Order SAPINDACEJi:. The proper Soapberry family belongs mostly to warmer climates ; but we have shrubs and trees belong- 347 344 315 348 . ^ ,, r •. f ing to three oi its sub- families : I. BLADDERNUT Sub- family. Flowers regular and perfect. Stamens 5, as many as tlie petals, and alternate with them. Seeds bony. Leaves opposite, pinnate or with 3 leaflets, having stipules, and also little stipules (slipeh) to the 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 ori
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