. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 203 CLASS II. —ENDOGENS OR MONOCOTYLEDONS. Stem having the wood in threads or bundles, interspersed among the pith or cellular part, not forming a ring or layer, and not mcreasing by annual layers. Leaves parallel-veined, not branching and" forming meshes of network. To this some Arums, Trillium, Greenbrier, &c. are exce
. 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 : illustrated by 500 wood engravings . Botany. POPULAR FLORA. 203 CLASS II. —ENDOGENS OR MONOCOTYLEDONS. Stem having the wood in threads or bundles, interspersed among the pith or cellular part, not forming a ring or layer, and not mcreasing by annual layers. Leaves parallel-veined, not branching and" forming meshes of network. To this some Arums, Trillium, Greenbrier, &c. are exceptions, having more or less netted. 50O, Endogenous atem of one year old, shown in a Corn-stalb. KJl. One of sevenil yenrs old. of Palmetto. Parallel-veined leaves of the two kinds: 502. that of Lily of (he Valley ; 603. one of Calln 504. section of the seed of Iria, showing the Email monocotyledonous embryo, 605. Flanliet of Iria growinj from the seed. Flowers with their parts mostly three or six, never five. Embryo monocotyledonous, i. e. of only one true seed-leaf: so in germination the leaves are all alternate or one above another. Except the Palmetto and one or two Yuccas at the South (Fig. 79), and some Greenbriers, all the Endogens of this country are herbs. "^ In warmer climates there are many Palms and other woody plants of the class, all having an appearance very different from our common trees and shrubs (113, 114). 14. 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 & Company ; Chicago : S. C. Griggs & Company
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