. 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. mm^ 323 326 323. American Linilen, in fiower. 324. Masfnified cross-section of a flower-bud. 3'^5. A inlt of stamens with the petal-like scale. 323. Pistil. 327. Fruit cut in two. Linden or Basswood. TUla. Sepals 5, thick, valvate (the margins edge to edge) in the bud, falling off after flowering. Petals 5, cream-color. Stamens very many, on the receptacle, in 5 clusters: anthers 2-
. 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. mm^ 323 326 323. American Linilen, in fiower. 324. Masfnified cross-section of a flower-bud. 3'^5. A inlt of stamens with the petal-like scale. 323. Pistil. 327. Fruit cut in two. Linden or Basswood. TUla. Sepals 5, thick, valvate (the margins edge to edge) in the bud, falling off after flowering. Petals 5, cream-color. Stamens very many, on the receptacle, in 5 clusters: anthers 2-celled. Pistil one: ovary 5-ceIIed, with two ovules in each cell; in fruit woody, small, closed, mostly one-seeded. — Lm^ge, soft- wooded trees, with heart-shaped leaves, often oblique at the base. Flowers in a smnll cluster on a slender and hanging peduncle from the axil of a leaf, and united part way Avith a narrow leaf-like bract. (Also called Lime-trees.). 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, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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