. 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. 172 ^^ffTJlJua, FLORA. 2. WiNTKruFRRT H. Or Bla I'-r** thin and lecidaous, norrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; pft'Juncles very short; parts of the hloiivAix of'Ufu iu sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This L>elon|^ to the section Prinos. I. verliciUdta, 56. EBONY FAMILY. Ord«r EBENACE-E. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserve
. 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. 172 ^^ffTJlJua, FLORA. 2. WiNTKruFRRT H. Or Bla I'-r** thin and lecidaous, norrate, veiny, obovate or ob- long; pft'Juncles very short; parts of the hloiivAix of'Ufu iu sixes; fruit red. Shrub: low grounds. This L>elon|^ to the section Prinos. I. verliciUdta, 56. EBONY FAMILY. Ord«r EBENACE-E. Of this small family, we have only one species, a tree, which deserves notice, viz.; — 123 Persimmon. Dioipyros. Tree with alternate thickish leaves; J^\y^.. <3S 424 in 423. Fertile flower. 433. ///( Hllnflll of the laiiie, laid open. 4411. >'iuii. 4'.^. Section uf the (uiiie. in their axila some trees bear clustered staminate flowers, with a 4-cleft corolla and about 16 stamens; others single and larger perfect flowers, with a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens. Calyx 4-cleft, rather large, thickish. Corolla pale yel- low. Pistil one, with 4 styles: the ovary ripening into a plum-like fruit, which is very astringent when green, but sweet and yellow and eatable after frosts, con- taining S large and bony flat seeds. D, Viryiniana. BQ. '*?IiANTAIN FAMILY. 'l-ANTAOINACEiE. Consists mainly of the genus of low stemless herbs called Plantain (or Rib-Grass). Planlago. Flowers greenish, on a scape, in a close spike. — Calyx of 4 persistent sepals. Corolla salver-shaped, thin, withering on the pod, 4-lobed. Stamens 4, generally with very long and weak filaments, boine on the corolla. Style and stigma one, slender. Pod 2-celled, opening crosswise, the top falling off as a lid, the lnose partition fulling out with the seeds. Leaves generally with strong ribs. 1. Common Plantain. Leaves ovate or slightly heart-shaped, several-ribbed; seeds 7 to 16. P. major. 2. ViUGiNiA P. Small (2' to '/' high), hairy; leaves oblong, 8 - 5-ribbed; seeds 2. P.
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