. 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. 158 FLORA. mock-Orange , (or Syiinga). PMladelphus. 1. Common M. or Stringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant,^ in large panicles; styles separate. Cultivated. P- coronarius. 2. Scentless M. Flowers larger and later than in the first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure white. Cultivated; also wild S. Leaves tastmg like cucumbers.
. 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. 158 FLORA. mock-Orange , (or Syiinga). PMladelphus. 1. Common M. or Stringa. Flowers cream-colored, fragrant,^ in large panicles; styles separate. Cultivated. P- coronarius. 2. Scentless M. Flowers larger and later than in the first, few on the spreading branchlets, pure white. Cultivated; also wild S. Leaves tastmg like cucumbers. 43. PARSLEY FAMILY. Order UMBELLIFER^. Herbs with small flowers in compound umbels, the 5 petals and 5 stamens on the top of the ovary, with which the caljfx is so incorporated that it is not apparent, except some- times by 5 minute teeth. Styles 2. Fruit dry, 2-seeded, splitting when ripe into two akenes. Stems hollow. Leaves generally compound, decompound, or much cut. Some species are aromatic, having a volatile oil in the seeds: most, but not all, of these are harmless. Others contain a deadly poison in the roots and leaves. The deadly poisonous sorts are marked f '• the most deadly is the Water-Hemlock, also called Musquash-root, and Beaver-Poison. — The kinds in this large family are known by their fruit, and are too difficult for the beginner. The principal common kinds are merely enumerated in the fol- lowing key. (Fig. 148 shows the compound umbel in Caraway, a good and familiar example of the fiunily.). jrs. P«rti>f stem, leaf, of Pol«on-Hemlock. 380. A aeparate umbelbl. 381. A ilower magnlted. S8S. Afniit. 383. towec half of-It cut oir. 384. ffruit of'Sweet Cicely; tlie two long akeuei 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 original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. Ne
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