. 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. 134 POPULAR FLORA. 1. A^iEKiCAN Linden or Bassavood. Leaves green, smooth, or in some varieties downy underneath; a petal-like body iu the middle of each of the 5 clusters of stamens. T. Americana. 2. EuKorEAN Linden. Leaves smooth or nearly so; stamens hardly in clusters, no petal-like bodies â with t]iem. Cultivated in cities, &c. as a shade-tree. T. Europoea. 19. CAMELLIA FAM
. 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. 134 POPULAR FLORA. 1. A^iEKiCAN Linden or Bassavood. Leaves green, smooth, or in some varieties downy underneath; a petal-like body iu the middle of each of the 5 clusters of stamens. T. Americana. 2. EuKorEAN Linden. Leaves smooth or nearly so; stamens hardly in clusters, no petal-like bodies â with t]iem. Cultivated in cities, &c. as a shade-tree. T. Europoea. 19. CAMELLIA FAMILY. Order CAMELLIACEJE. Shrubs or small trees, "with alternate and simple leaves, not dotted; large and showy flowers, with a persistent calyx of 5 overlapping sepals, and very many stamens, their fila- ments united at the bottom with each other and with the base of the petals. Anthers 2-celled. Fruit a woody pod of 3 to 6 cells, containing few large seeds. To this belongs the grateful Tea-plant of China, and the Ca:^iellia, of our green-houses, Loblolly-Bay, of swamps in the Southern States, CnmeUia Japonica. Gordbnia Lasidnihus. 20. ORANGE FAMILY. Order Like the last, this family hardly claims a place here, being only house-plants, except far south. Known by having 20 or more stamens in one row around a single pistil, and the leaves having a joint between the blade and the winged or margined footstalk : they (and the fra- grant petals) are punctate with transparent dots, looking like holes when held between the eye and the light, which are little reservoii^s of fragrant oil. Fruit a berry with a thick rind. Orange, Citrus Aurdniium. Lemon, Citrus Limbnium. 21. FLAX FAMILY. Order LINAGES. Herbs with tough fibres in the inner bark, simple leaves, and oily seeds with a mucilagi- nous coat; consisting only of the Flax genus, which is known by the following marks : â. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digi
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