POPULAR FLORA. 



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6. CoRYMBEB S. Herb 1° to 2,° high, with a terete ?tem, little branched; leaves oblong, dotted with 



black as well as with transparent dots, and so generally are the pale yellow petals ; sepals oblong. 



Low grounds. H. cm-ymbbsum. 



* * # Stamens few, 6 to 15. Styles 3, short. Pod one-celled. Slender annuals, growing in wet 



or sandy places, 4' to 15' high : flowers very small. 

 o. Small S. Stem weak, with spreading branches, leafy to the top; leaves ovate or oblong, partly 

 clasping, 5-ribbed. H. mutilum. 



7. Canada S. Branches erect, leaves lance-shaped or linear ; cymes leafless. B. Canadense. 



8. PixE-WEED S. Bushy-branched, the branches wiry and very slender; the leaves very minute, 



awl-shaped, close-pressed to the branches; flowers minute, sessile along the branches. U. Sarbihra. 



15. PINK FAMILY. Order CARTOPHYLLACE^. 

 Herbs with opposite and entire leaves, which are not dotted, the stems swollen at the 

 joints. Flowers regular, their parts in fives, sometimes in fours. Stamens never more 

 than twice as many as the petals or sepals, and often fewer, on the receptacle or the calj'x. 

 Styles or stigmas generally separate, 2 to 5. Fruit a pod, which is generally one-celled, 

 with the seeds from the bottom or on a central column. These are kidney-shaped, and 

 have the embryo on the outside of the albumen, generally coiled aro'ind it. — Bland 



202. Piece of Side-flowering Saiidwort. 303. Flower magnifierl. 304. A seed diviile'1, showing tiie emijrvo coiled around thn outside n) 

 .he albnmei). 305. I'islil of Band-Spuney cut through leiiglhwiae and magiiilied. 1»0J. Lower part of IheoTaryof llie same, cuv acroai. 

 ^7. Flower of a Catchfly cut through lengthwise. 308. A separate petal. 



