. 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. 4 22 Fertile flower. 424. Fruil. 425. SecliOD of tbe eame. 425 424 Corolla and stamens of the same, laid open Diospyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; in their axils some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-oleft corolla and about 16 stamens; others single and larger perfect flowers, with a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens. Calyx 4-cleft, rather large, thick
. 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. 4 22 Fertile flower. 424. Fruil. 425. SecliOD of tbe eame. 425 424 Corolla and stamens of the same, laid open Diospyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; in their axils some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-oleft 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- taining 8 large and bony flat seeds. D. VirginiaTW,. 56. PLANTAIN FAMILY. Order PLANTAGINACE.^. 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 faUing 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 7'high), hairy; leaves oblong, 3 - 5-ribbed; seeds 2. P. Virginica. 3. English P. or Eipple-Gkass. 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- lanceolaia. 4. Seaside P. Smooth; leaves linear, thick and fleshy; seeds 2. Salt marshes on the ^'^ ^'^ â, . ,â . , ''^ â ^ ^ n ⢠426. Young apike of common Plantain. 427 Afloviern OOaat. P. maritima. til of the same. 429. Fruit, opening by a lid, the wit
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