. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 133 1. Shrubby or Althaea Hibiscus. Shrub B° to 10° high, smooth ; leaves wedge-ovate, tootheJ, 3-lobed ; flowers short-stalked, white, purple-red, &o. (single or double). Cultivated for orna- ment, n. Syr'iacus. â 2. Great Eed H. Herb 8° high from a perennial root, smooth; leaves deeply cleft into 5 lance-linear lobes; corolla red, 8' to 11' broad! S.
. 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. POPULAR FLORA. 133 1. Shrubby or Althaea Hibiscus. Shrub B° to 10° high, smooth ; leaves wedge-ovate, tootheJ, 3-lobed ; flowers short-stalked, white, purple-red, &o. (single or double). Cultivated for orna- ment, n. Syr'iacus. â 2. Great Eed H. Herb 8° high from a perennial root, smooth; leaves deeply cleft into 5 lance-linear lobes; corolla red, 8' to 11' broad! S. and in gardens. H. cocdneus. 3. Halberd-leaved H. Herb 6° high from a perennial root, smooth; lower leaves 3-Iobed, upper halberd-shaped; calyx bladdery after flowering; corolla flesh-colored, 3' long. JI. militaris. i. Marsh H. Herb 5° high from a perennial root; leaves soft-downy and whitish underneath, ovate, pointed, the lower 3-lobed; base of the flower-stalks and leafstalks often grown together; corolla 5' broad, white or rose-color with a crimson eye. Salt marshes, &c. H. Moscheutos. 5. Bladder-Ketmia H. (or Flower-of-an-Hmr). Herb 1° to 2° high from an annual root, somewhat hairy; lower leaves toothed, upper 3-parted, with narrow divisions; corolla greenish-yellow with a dark-brown eye, opening only in midday sunshine; calyx bladdery after flowering, enclosing the pod. Gardens, &c. H. Tribnum. 18. LINDEN FAMILY. Order TILIACEiE. Has the tough and fibrous inner bark and the bland mucilage of the Mallow family. Its distinctions are shown in the only genus we have, viz. : â. 323. Amprican Linien, in flower. 324. Mag-nified cross-section of a flower-bud, 3^5. A mil of stamens with the peLal-liku scale. 326. Pistil, 327, Fruit cut in two. Linden or Basswood. Tilia. 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
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