. 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. tV. POPULAR FLORA. 185 Moming-GIory. Tpomcba. 1. Common Jf. Annual; stem liniry, tlie Imirs bent downwards; leaves lienrt-shnped, entire; flowers 3 to 5 on the peduncle; flowers purple or pink varying to white, opening early iu the morning, closing in briglit sunshine; pod 3-cellcd. Cult. &c. 2. Wild ^I. (or ]\Iax-of-tiie-Earth). Smooth; root huge, perennial; leaves
. 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. tV. POPULAR FLORA. 185 Moming-GIory. Tpomcba. 1. Common Jf. Annual; stem liniry, tlie Imirs bent downwards; leaves lienrt-shnped, entire; flowers 3 to 5 on the peduncle; flowers purple or pink varying to white, opening early iu the morning, closing in briglit sunshine; pod 3-cellcd. Cult. &c. 2. Wild ^I. (or ]\Iax-of-tiie-Earth). Smooth; root huge, perennial; leaves heart-shaped, entire or some of tliem narrowed in the middle; flowers 1 to 5 on a peduncle, white with purple in the tube, opening in sunshine. Sandy banks. I. panduratus. 68. NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. Order Herbs, or sometimes shrubs, â with a colorless bitter or nauseous juice (often poisonous) ; alternate leaves; and regular llowers, â¢with 5 (or in cultivattnl ])lants sometimes G or 7) mostly equal stamens and one pistil. Ovary -with 2 or more cells, in fruit becoming a many-seeded berry or pod. Corolla plaited in the bud, or valvate, i. e. the lobes placed edge to 438 Upi)£r part of ihe corolla of Strnmonium (Fi?. 177) in buil. cco. 431 Us |)Oil ami calyx. 462. fciaine, will) llie upper pari cut 463 Flowers and beriiei uf Billersweet Niglitsliade. 434. Flower of HeuOane. 465. Fod of tlie same, o|)eiiiiig by a lul. Corolla wheel-shaped : stamens closely converging or united around the style (Fig. 182, 183). Fruit a berry. Anthers longer than the very short filaments, and Connected with each other, opening lengthwise. Berry several-celled, (Ljjcopersicnm) *Tomato. Not grown together, opening at the top by two pores, {Solanum) NioiixsiiADa Anthers shorter than the filaments, heart-shaped, separate, opening lengthwise. Berry pod-like, inflated, the pulp very pungent (Cayenne or Red Pepper), (Cdpsicwn) * Please note that these images are extra
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