. 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. Ok, POPULAR FLORA, 191 75. MIRABILIS FAMILY. Order NYCTAGINACE^. Has some Avild representatives far Avest and south, viz.: Oxybapiius, &c,, Avlth several flowers in a calyx-like involucre, the funnel-shaped calyx rose-purple, and exactly like a corolla. And in gardens Mirabilis or Four-o'Clock (so called from the flowers opening late in the afternoon) is common. Here there is on
. 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. Ok, POPULAR FLORA, 191 75. MIRABILIS FAMILY. Order NYCTAGINACE^. Has some Avild representatives far Avest and south, viz.: Oxybapiius, &c,, Avlth several flowers in a calyx-like involucre, the funnel-shaped calyx rose-purple, and exactly like a corolla. And in gardens Mirabilis or Four-o'Clock (so called from the flowers opening late in the afternoon) is common. Here there is only one flower in the bell-shaped invo- lucre, which exactly imitates a calyx, while the large funnel-shaped calyx is just like the corolla of a Morning-Glory. Stamens 5 : style one. Leaves opposite, heart-shaped, long- stalked. The CoJiMON FouK-o'Clock or JIirabilis, from Mexico, well known in gardens, is M. Jaldpa, 76. POKEWEED FAMILY. Order PHYTOLACCACEiE. Is represented with us by one, and that a very common, species of Pokeweed. Phjtolucca. Sepals 5, rounded, concave, petal-like, white. Stamens 10, under tlie ovary. Ovary green, composed of 10 one- seeded ovaries united into one: st\des 10, sliort and separate. Fruit a dark crimson 10-seeded berry. A coarse rank herb, with a thick, acrid, and poisonous root, a large pithy stem, and alternate oblong leaves ; the flowers in racemes opposite the leaves. Low and rich ground, everywhere common; flowering all summer, ripening its abundant berries in autumn. P. decdndra. 476. Summit of a flowering branch of Polfe- V eed. 477. Fiiut-bearing'branch. 478. A flower, enlarged. 479. Younj fruit. 480. Same, ci't across. 481. Seed divided lengthwise, and magnified. 482. Erabryo, more 77. GOOSEFOOT FAMILY. Order CHENOPODIACEiE. Homely herbs, with mostly alternate leaves, without stipules, and no dry scaly bracts amou'T the small and greenish flowers; the calyx enclosing the onc-eellcd and one-seeded. Please note that these imag
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