. 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. 152 POPULAR FLORA. 34. CAB-OLIITA-ALLSPICE FAMILY. Order A small flimily of a few rather curious s!irub:s, with opposite leaves; represented by the Carolina-Allspice. Cahjcdntlius. Flowers somewhat on the p!:in of tlie rose, having a large number of simple pistils contained in a sort of closed calyx-cup, or liollow receptacle, and attached to its inner surface, liut
. 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. 152 POPULAR FLORA. 34. CAB-OLIITA-ALLSPICE FAMILY. Order A small flimily of a few rather curious s!irub:s, with opposite leaves; represented by the Carolina-Allspice. Cahjcdntlius. Flowers somewhat on the p!:in of tlie rose, having a large number of simple pistils contained in a sort of closed calyx-cup, or liollow receptacle, and attached to its inner surface, liut tlie outside is covered with sepals or calyx-lobes, which are colored like the petals (brown-purple); these are many and narrow, in several rows. Stamens many, on the top of the cup; filaments liardly any; anthers long, tipped with a point. Ovaries making large akenes, enclosed in the large and dry hip. Seed-leaves of the embryo lolled up. Shrubs, M'ith rather aromatic bark, ^c. and opposite entire leaves, without any stipules. Tlowers large, when bruised giving out a fragrance resembling that of strawberries. Wild in the Southern States, especially in and near the mountains; and also cultivated,especially the first species. Sj2. Floweriiiir branch of Carolina Allspice. 3?3 Ilalfcf a citlyx rnp of llie same, cut ihroufli len-flhw ise. (Cuinpai* il wuli ;i Rose, Fij. 360 ) A ripe fiUil or 330 SSI 1. Common C. Leaves oval or roundish, downy beneath. Commonly cult, in gardens 2. Smooth C. Leaves oblong, smooth, green both sides; flowers smaller. 3. Glaucous C. Leaves oblong- or lance-ovate, pointed, glaucous or whitened beneath. C. f/luucus. C. Jloriilus. C. herif/aius. 35. LYTHRUM FAMILY. Order LYTHRACEJE. IIerb3 with entire and mostly opposite leaves, and no stipules; the calyx tubular or cup- shaped, beariiirj from 4 to 7 petals and 4 to 14 stamens on its throat, and enclosing the many-seeded ovary and thin pod. Between the 4 to 7 teeth of the calyx arc as many add
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