. How plants grow [microform] : 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; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 129 ConTMBKD S. Herb 1" to 2' high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblong, dotted with black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale yellow petals; sepals oblong. Low grounds. II. coryinbbmm. 4llF « Stamens few, 5 to 16. Styles S, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in we6 ^ or sand}' places, 4' t
. How plants grow [microform] : 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; Botanique. POPULAR FLORA. 129 ConTMBKD S. Herb 1" to 2' high, with a terete stem, little branched; leaves oblong, dotted with black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale yellow petals; sepals oblong. Low grounds. II. coryinbbmm. 4llF « Stamens few, 5 to 16. Styles S, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in we6 ^ or sand}' places, 4' to 15' high: flowers very small. Small S. Stem weak, with spreading branches, leafy to the top; leaves ovate or oblong, partly clasping, 5-ribbed. 11. mutilum. Canada S. Branches erect, leaves lance-shaped or linear; cymes leafless. //. Canadense. Pine-weed S. Bushy-branched, the branches wiry and very slender; the leaves very minute, awl-shaped, close-pressed to the branches; flowers minute, sessile along the branches. II. Sardthra. 15. PINK FAMILY. Order CARYOPHYLLACEJE. Herbs with opposite and entire leaves, which are not dotted, the stems swollen at the joints. Flowers regular, their parts in fives, sometimes in fours. Stamens never more than twice as many as the petals or sepals, and often fewer, on the receptacle or the calyx. Styles or stigmas generally separate, 2 to 5. Fruit a pod, which is generally one-celled, with the seeds from the bottom or on a central column. These are kidney-shaped, and have the embryo on the outside of the albumen, generally coiled around it. — Bland. 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. Toronto : A. Miller
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