. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 172 POPULAR FLORA. 2. Winterberry H. or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prinos. I. verticillata. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACE^E. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz.: â 423 Persimmon. Diospyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; in their axils some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-cleft corolla and about 16 stame
. Botany for young people and common schools. Botany. 172 POPULAR FLORA. 2. Winterberry H. or Black Alder. Leaves thin and deciduous, serrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; peduncles very short; parts of the blossom often in sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This belongs to the section Prinos. I. verticillata. 55. EBONY FAMILY. Order EBENACE^E. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz.: â 423 Persimmon. Diospyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; in their axils some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-cleft corolla and about 16 stamens; others single and larger perfect flowers, with a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens. Calyx 4-cleft, rather large, thickish. Corolla pale yel- low. Pistil one, with 4 styles: the ovary ripening into a plum-like fruit, which is very astringent when green, but sweet and yellow and eatable after frosts, con- 422 425 424 taining 8 large and bony flat seeds. 422. Fertile flower. 423. Corolla and stamens of the same, laid open. D. Viv gbliana. 424. Fruit. 425. Section of the 56. PLANTAIN FAMILY. Order PLANTAGINACE^E. Consists mainly of the genus of low stemless herbs called Plantain (or Rib-Grass). Plantago. Flowers greenish, on a scape, in a close spike. â Calyx of 4 persistent sepals. Corolla salver-shaped, thin, withering on the pod, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, generally with very long and weak filaments, borne on the corolla. Style and stigma one, slender. Pod 2-celled, opening crosswise, the top falling off as a lid, the loose partition falling out with the seeds. Leaves generally with strong ribs. 1. Common Plantain. Leaves ovate or slightly heart-shaped, several-ribbed; seeds 7 to 16. P. major. 2. Virginia P. Small (2' to V high), hairy; leaves oblong, 3-5-ribbed; seeds 2. P. Virginica. 3. English P. or Ripple-Grass. Hairy, with long lance-shaped or linear leaves, and a short and thick spike or head, on a scape 1° or 2° high; seeds 2. Com- mon E. P. lanceolata. 4. Seaside
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