The first book of botany - designed to cultivate the observing powers of children (1870) (14581672618)

Identifier: firstbookofbot00youm (find matches)
Title: The first book of botany : designed to cultivate the observing powers of children
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Youmans, Eliza A. (Eliza Ann), b. 1826
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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PLAJST DESCKIPTION. 135 Description of Fig. 24:7» EooTS fibrous, matted, somewhat spreading. Stem of scaly nodes, internodes none. Leaves radical, simple, exstipulate, peltately pal-mate-veined, wavy, deeply two-lobed, shut sinus atbase; petiole long, roimd, rather erect. INFLORESCENCE Solitary, on a smooth, naked scape. Flower. Calyx ; sepals 4, polysepalous, oblong:corolla; petals 8, polypetalous, regular, oblong,spreading: stamens 8; filaments threadlike, shorterthan anther; anthers two-celled, oblong: pistil;carpels 2; style short; stigma spreading, two-lobed. Fig. 248.
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PLANT DESCKIPTIOK, 137 Description of Fig. 248. EooTS fibrous, growing from tlie entire under-sideof the stem. Stem creeping below the ground. Leaf radical, petiolate, exstipulate, wavy-dentate,palmate-veined, slightly reniform, obtusely seven-lobed, sinuses rounded, nearly closed ; petiole half-round, channelled. Inflobescence solitary, on a smooth, slenderscape. Flower. Calyx ; sepals 2, ovate, regular :COROLLA ; petals 8, polypetalous, regular, obovate-oblong, spreading: stamens many, shorter than thepetals; filaments short, threadlike; anthers oblong,two-celled : pistil ; ovary oblong, of two carpels ;styles united in a column ; stigma two-lobed.