. 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. 136 POPULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cranesbill. Geranium. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.â Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from a perennial root; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often â whitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. mamlatum. 2. Caeolina G. Stems s
. 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. 136 POPULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cranesbill. Geranium. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.â Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from a perennial root; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often â whitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. mamlatum. 2. Caeolina 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. Caroliniamim. S. Heeb-Robekt G. Stems spreading; leaves 3-divided, and the divisions twice pinnately cleft; flowers small, purple. Moist woods and ravines; fl. summer., G. Eoberlianum. 24. INDIAIT-CEESS FAMILY. Order TROP^OLACBiE. 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 Nastukticm). Trqpaolum. ' Calyx projecting into a long hollow spur behind, petal-like, 6-cleft. Petals B, 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. Common I. or Nastuetium. 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. Clirnbing high; leaves deeply lobed; petals pale yellow, cut-fringed. Cult. T. peregrinum. 25. BALSAM FAMILY. Order BALSAMINACE^. Tender annuals, with a bland watery juice and very irregular flowei-s; such as those of the principal genus, Balsam (or Jewel-weed). Impatiens. Calyx and corolla colored alike and diffi- cult to distinguish, in all of 6 pieces, the la
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