. 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. 136 POrULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cianesbill. Geraniiim. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.— Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from a perennial root ; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often Avhitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. maculutum. 2. Carolina G. Stems spreading from a biennial or annual ro
. 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. 136 POrULAR FLORA. Geranium or Cianesbill. Geraniiim. Petals all alike. All 10 stamens with anthers, every other one shorter.— Herbs. 1. Spotted G. Stem erect, from a perennial root ; leaves 5-parted, also cut and toothed, often Avhitish-blotched; petals pale purple. Borders of woods; fl. in spring and summer. G. maculutum. 2. Carolina G. Stems spreading from a biennial or annual root; leaves 5-parted, and cut into nar- row lobes; flowers small; petals flesh-color, notched at the end. "Waste places. G. Carolinianum. 3. HERn-RoBEKT G. Stems spreading; leaves 3-divided, and the divisions twice pinnately cleft; flowers small, purple. Moist woods aud ravmes; fl. summer. G. lioberlianum. 24. IISTDIAN-CRESS FAMILY. Order TROPyEOLACETE. Twining, climbing, or trailing herbs, with a watery juice of a sharp taste like ^Mustard, alternate leaves, and showy irregular floAvers, as in Indian-Cress (commonly called Nasturtium). TrojJCBolum. Calyx projecting into a long hollow spur behind, petal-like, 5-cleft. Petals 5, of two sorts, two of them borne on the throat of the calyx, the 3 others with claws. Stamens 8, unequal. Fruit 3-lobed, separating into 3 thick and closed one-seeded pieces. 1. Common I. or Nasturtium. Very smooth; leaves roundish, shield-shaped; flowers large; petals orange-yellow, the claws of 3 of them fringed. Cult, very common. T. mojus. 2. Canarv-bird I. Climbing high; leaves deeply lobed; petals pale yellow, cut-fringed. Cult. T. 2yere(/rinum. 25. BALSAM FAMILY. Order BALSAMINACEiE. Tender annuals, with a bland watery juice and very irregular flowers; such as those of the principal genus, Salsam (or Jeavel-aveed). Impatiens. Calyx and corolla colored alike and diffi- cult to distinguish, in all of 6 pieces, the largest one extended backward
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