PLANTS. 221 



root, although acrid and poisonous, is used in medi- 

 cine.* 2. 



Devil in a Bush Love iti Mist (Nigella damascena) 

 has a smooth branching stem ; flowers covered with a 

 kind of veil ; seed enclosed in five separate capsules. 

 Grows wild in the south of France and Italy ; cultivated 

 farther north in gardens ; flowers are white, blue, and 

 greenish ; blooms in June and August. O Sometimes 

 called Ragged Lady. 



The Lark Spur (Delphimim ajacis), calyx petaloid,f 

 corolla! undeveloped, upper sepal or leaflet produced into 

 a spur at base. Flower petals .four, the two upper with 

 a spur -shaped appendage at base, enclosed in the spur of 

 the calyx. Buds blue and grape-like ; stem grows to a 

 height of three feet ;. is found single, but the petals are 

 often multiplied into double flowers. O an d $ . 



SECOND FAMILY. MAGNOLIACE^:, to which belongs 



The Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), a large 

 and beautiful tree, growing to a great thickness. Sepals^ 

 three, caducous|| corolla campanulate ; petals mostly six, 

 yellow and green, at base red. Blooms in July, and is 

 the ornament of a garden as well as of the forest, i? . 

 Class 13, Linn. 



The Stellated Anise (Illicium anisatum) grows in 

 China, Japan, and the Philippines ; somewhat like a 



* The physician Paeon, according to mythology, first used this plant 

 in medicine, and cured Pluto with it. Tr. 



f Petal-like. 



^ Corolla, the delicate inner covering of the flower between calyx 

 and stamens. 



Leaflets of calyx sepal distinct portion of calyx ; sepaloid 

 green and not petal-like. 



| Caducous falling off readily. Corolla-flower campanulate 

 bell or tulip-shaped. 



