. 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. % POPULAR FLORA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Ltntago. 3. Blacs-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. 4. Arrow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straiglit veins, smo
. 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. % POPULAR FLORA. 163 2. Sweet V. or Sheep-berry. Leaves ovate, pointed, very sharply serrate, on long and margined footstalks; cymes sessile; fruit rather large, eatable. A small tree. V. Ltntago. 3. Blacs-Haw V. Leaves oval, blunt, shining; otherwise like No. 2. S. and W. 4. Arrow-wood V. Leaves round-ovate, coarsely toothed, strongly marked with straiglit veins, smooth; cymes small, stalked; fruit small, bright blue. Shrub, in wet places. V. dcniaium. 5. ^Lvple-leaved V. or DockMackie. Leaves roundish and with 3 pointed lobes, coarsely toothed, downy beneath; cymes long-stalked. Rocky woods: a shrub. V. acerifblium. * * Flowers at the margin of the cyme neutral, consisting merely of a large and flat corolla, white (just as in Hydrangea, p. 69, and Fig. 169.) 6. Snowball V. or Cranberry-tree. Leaves with 3 pointed lobes, smooth ; fruit red, Swamps, N. — The Snowball-tree or Gueldek-Rose is a cultivated state of this, with all the flowers become neutral. T'. Opulus. 7. Hobblebush V. Branches long and spreading, often taking root; leaves large, round-ovate or hearf-shaped, many-veined, scurfy beneath; cyme sessile, very broad; fruit red, turning blackish. Damp woods, N. V. laniaiioules. 47. MADDER FAMILY. Order RUBIACE^E. Well distinguished by its regular monopetalous corolla, bearing 4 or 5 stamens alternate with its lobes, and itself borne on the ovary (the calyx being coherent) ; and the leaves in whorls, or else opposite and with stipules between them. 391 399. 833. P:ece»f Madder, in flower. 39f. Half of a flower, inagnified. 395. Y011115 fruits. S9S. Rine 3J7. Coniiiioii ibS Sectiua of a Cower Icii^tliwisc, iiuigiiifieii, i-id iLu coiollu laid o^eii. bS<9. Corolla of another flower Jaid opiin, and the style.
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