. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 181 i. Narrotv'-lkaved S. Jlinutely lionry or downy, slender, !<* or 2° liigli; leaves Inncc-oblonj^ or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. K. and S. S. iiiie(jriJulia. * *- * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 5. DwAKi' S. 3Iinutely downy, 3' to G'high; leaves round-ovato or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 2'long. Dry or sandy banks of river
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 181 i. Narrotv'-lkaved S. Jlinutely lionry or downy, slender, !<* or 2° liigli; leaves Inncc-oblonj^ or linear, entire; raceme short, as in the foregoing. K. and S. S. iiiie(jriJulia. * *- * Flowers single, in the axils of the leaves. 5. DwAKi' S. 3Iinutely downy, 3' to G'high; leaves round-ovato or the upper lance-ovate, entire, 2'long. Dry or sandy banks of rivers, (Sec. S. parvula. 6. Slendku S. Slender, 1° or 2° high; leaves lance-ovate, serrate, with a roundish or slightly heart- shaped base, sessile; flowers s'long. Wet woods. S. (jaltricuUUa. 64. BOBHAGE FAMILY. Order BORRAGINACEiE. Herbs with alternate entire leaves, not aromatie, commonly rough: the flowers regular, with a 5-leaved calyx, 5-Iobed corolla, 5 stamens on the tube, one style, and a 4-Iobed ovary, making 4 akenes. Flowers generally in one- sided raceme-like clusters, coiled up at the tip, and unfolding as the blossoms expand. Inno:^-cnt mucila- ginous and slightly bitter plants, the roots of some species yielding a red r43 ^•55. Ernnch orFor?»>tmc-not, in f'ower. 416. Tlie Kud open, wall ilie etameiis. mauiiliel 447. Tilt: pisiil with its 4-lobe(l ovary ; calyx, &c. cui " 44^. 'J"wo of llie ripe akenes in (lis cnlyx ; the nvo sepils in\v,i,ils llie eya anl two ol llie iikeiifs iftiiovi'd. 449. Akene cut th:Mujrli li^njjihwise, ;-nifiei| ; ihewlmle kernel eiiibiyu. Klowcii ol' Coinl':ey. 451. Corolla i:nl.\rz't'l, hiiil npen, shnw- lag the sli^rp scales inside, uiid the stamens. * Ovary 4-parted, making 4 akenes around the base of the style. Akenes or lobes erect, fixed by the lower end, separate from the style, not prickly. Corolla somewhat irregular (the lobes rather unequal), funnel-shaped (blue or purple). Its
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