. 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. IIG POPULAR FLORA. 7. AzuKE L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- blue or white; pods erect. JJ. aziireum. Aconite, (ilonkshood, Wolfsbane.) Aconittnn. Sepals 5, petal-like, dissimilar, tlie upper one largest and forming a hood or helmet. Petals only 2, and those are small and curiously shaped bodies, with a curved or hammer-shaped l
. 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. IIG POPULAR FLORA. 7. AzuKE L. Leaves parted and cut into narrow linear lobes; flowers many in a close raceme, sky- blue or white; pods erect. JJ. aziireum. Aconite, (ilonkshood, Wolfsbane.) Aconittnn. Sepals 5, petal-like, dissimilar, tlie upper one largest and forming a hood or helmet. Petals only 2, and those are small and curiously shaped bodies, with a curved or hammer-shaped little blade on a long claw, standing under the hood. Pods as in Larkspur. — Flowers in racemes or panicles, showy, blue, or purple, varying to white. Herbage and roots,poisonous. (Fig. 254, 255.) 1. Garden Aconite. Stem erect and rather stout, very leafy; divisions of the leaves parted into linear lobes; flowers crowded. A. NapcUus. 2. Wild A. Stem weak and bending, as if to climb; lobes of the leaves lance-ovate; flowers scattered, in summer. W. A. uncinatuiiu Four pptnls of No. 1, uaiieU iiUo uiic 8-)7. Finwcr, &c. ofWiM Colnmliine. JJ|8. A pt-t;il. V:-19. TIil- 5 \) opca- 251. Flowprof CW. Il5 Sepals uiiJ displayed. 234. Flower of Acaniie. Cjj Its parts di*. )htjeil ; ., tlie puiulj; «<, an J pUliU u:i lliia! Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gray, Asa, 1810-1888. New York : Ivison, Phinney, Blakeman & Co
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