. 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; Botany. 136 POPULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cranesbill. Geranium. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.— Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from u perennial root; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often whitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. inaculdium. 2. Caholina G. Stems spreading from a biennial or ann
. 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; Botany. 136 POPULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cranesbill. Geranium. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.— Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from u perennial root; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often whitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. inaculdium. 2. Caholina G. Stems spreading from a biennial or annual root; leaves 6-parted, and cut into nar- row lobes; flowers small; petals flesh-color, notched at the end. Waste places. G. Carolinianum. 3. Herb-Robert G. Stems spreading; leaves .3-divided, and the divisions twice pinnately cleft; flowers small, purple. Moist woods and ravines; fl. summer. G. Roberiianum. 24. INDIAN-CRESS FAMILY. Order TROPiEOLACEiE. Twining, climbing, or trailing herbs, with a watery juice of a sharp taste like Mustard, alternate leaves, and showy irregular flowers, as in Indian-Cress (commonly called Nasturtium)- Trop&olum. Calyx projecting into a long hollow spur behind, petal-like, 5-cleft. Petals 5, of two sorts, two of them borne on the throat of the calyx, the 3 others with claws. Stamens 8, unequal. Fruit 3-lobed, separating into 3 thick and closed one-seeded pieces. 1. CoMTviojJ I. or Nasturtium. Very smooth; leaves roundish, shield-shaped; flowers large; petals orange-yellow, the claws of 3 of them fringed. Cult, very common. T. majus. 2. Canaky-bikd I. Climbing high; deeply lobed; petals pale yellow, cut-fringed. Cult. T. pereffrinum. 25. BALSAM FAMILY. Order BALSAMINACEiE. Tender annuals, mth a bland watery juice and very irregular flowers; such as those of the principal genus, Balsam (or Jewel-weed). Tmpadens. Calyx and corolla colored alike and diflS- cult to distinguish, in all of 6 pieces, the largest one extended backward in
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