. 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. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. European Grape. Flowers all perfect; leaves deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie. ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c., V. vinifera. %. NoKTHEKN Fox-Grape. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-woolly beneath; ber- ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the iough
. 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. 138 POPULAR FLORA. 1. European Grape. Flowers all perfect; leaves deeply and sharply lobed. Cult, in several varie. ties, viz. Sweetwater Grape, Black Hamburg, &c., V. vinifera. %. NoKTHEKN Fox-Grape. Leaves very woolly when young, remaining rusty-woolly beneath; ber- ries large, purple or amber-colored. — Improved varieties of this, without the foxy taste and the iough pulp, are the Isabella and the Catawba Grapes. V. Labriisca. 3- Summer Grape. Leaves with loose cobwebby down underneath, smoothish when old ; panicles of fertile flowers very long and slender; berries small, ripe with first frost. V. cEstivalis. i. Frost Grape. Leaves thin, heart-shaped, never woolly, not shining, sharply and coarsely toothed, little or not at all lobed ; panicles loose ; berries blue or black with a bloom, sour, ripening late. Common along river-banks, &o. V. cordifdKa. 6. Muscadine or Southern Fox-Grape. Bark of the stem close, not thrown off in loose strips, as in the others; leaves round-heart-shaped, shining, not downy, very coarsely toothed; panicles small, with crowded flowers; berry large, musky, with a very thick and tough skin. A variety is the Scuppernong Grape. Common S. Virginia-Creeper. Ampeldpsis. Petals 6, thick, opening before they fall. Leaves palmate with 5 leaflets (Fig. 74). Berries small, blackish. A very common tall- climbing vine, wild and culti- vated. A. quinquefdlia. F. milpina. 340. Flower opening 341. Same, with the peiuls Twig of Grape-vine. 29. BUCKTHORN FAMILY. Order RHAMNACE^. Woody plants, with simple alternate leaves, known by having the stamens as many as the small petals (4 or 5) and one before each of them, both inserted on the calyx or on a fleshy cup which lines the tube of the calyx; the lobes of the latt
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