. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 133 1. Shkobby or Alth/EA Hibiscus. Shrab 5° to 10° high, smooth ; leaves wedge-ovate, toothed, 3-lobed ; flowers short-stalked, white, purple-red, &c. (single or double). Cultivated for orna- ment. E. Syriacut. 2. Great Eed H. Herb 8° high from a perennial root, smooth; leaves deeply cleft into 5 lance-linear lobes; corolla red, 8' to 11' broad! S. a
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 133 1. Shkobby or Alth/EA Hibiscus. Shrab 5° to 10° high, smooth ; leaves wedge-ovate, toothed, 3-lobed ; flowers short-stalked, white, purple-red, &c. (single or double). Cultivated for orna- ment. E. Syriacut. 2. Great Eed H. Herb 8° high from a perennial root, smooth; leaves deeply cleft into 5 lance-linear lobes; corolla red, 8' to 11' broad! S. and in gardens. M. coccinens. 3. Halbeed-leaved H. Herb 6° high from a perennial root, smooth; lower leaves 3-lobed, upper halberd-shaped; calyx bladdery after flowering; corolla flesh-colored, 3' long. S. miliiaris. 4. Marsh H. Herb 6° high from a perennial root; leaves soft-downy and whitish underneath, ovate, pointed, the lower 3-lobed; base of the flower-stalks and leafstalks often grown together; corolla 5' broad, white or rose-color with a crimson eye. Salt marshes, &o. B. Mofcheiitos. 5. Bladder-Ketmia H. (or Flower-of-an-Bour). Herb 1° to 2° high from an annual root, somewhat hairy; lower leaves toothed, upper 3-parted, with narrow divisions; corolla greenish-yellow with a dark-brown eye, opening only in midday sunshine; calyx bladdery after flowering, enclosing the pod. Gardens, &c. B. Trionum. 18. LINDEN FAMILY. Order TILIACE^. Has the tough and fibrous inner bark and the bland mucilage of the Mallow family. Itj distinctions are shown in the only genus we have, viz. : —. --^^^ —j-r^f^"^"'*^.. 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. New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.
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