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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 - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...a few one-seeded pistils, becoming small drupes in fruit, with a moon-shaped or kidney-shaped stone. We have two genera of one snecies each, the first common at the North, the second at the South. 1. Stamens 12 to 20: pistils 2 to 4. Flowers white: leaves rounded and angled shield-shaped.' Fruit blue-black, (Menispermum) Moonseed. 2. Stamens 6, one before each petal. Flowers greenish: leaves heart-shaped. (Coccitlus) Cocculus. 6. BARBERRY FAMILY. Order BEEBEEIDACEE. Readily distinguished (with a single exception) by having the sepals and petals in fours, Bixes, or eights (not in fives), and with just the same number of stamens as petals, one before each petal (on the receptacle), the anthers opening by an uplifted valve or door on each side. Pistil only one Harmless, except the May-Apple (also called Mandrake), which has rather poisonous roots, although the fruit is innocent and eatable. Having only one species of each genus, we may ascertain them by the following key:--15 Shorn; 266. clmter of leaee and raceme apreud open; S63. n petal more magnified with toe antbar opening, of the common Barberry. Shrubs with yellow bark and wood, and yellow flowers. Stamens and petals 6. Leaves appearing simple, in a cluster above a branching thorn, which is isj an altered leaf of the year bltbre. Berries red, (Berberie) Barberry. Leaves scattered, pinnate, evergreen: no thorns. Berries blue (Mah&nia) mahonia. Herbs,with perennial roots, all with compound or deeply lobed leaves. Flowers yellowish-green, small. Stamens and petals 6. Leaves decompound, from the root and also at the top of the stem, ( Caulophyllum) Cohosh. Flowers white, rather large: petals larger than the fugacious calyx. Stamens and narrow petals 8. The one-flowered scape and...
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