ANALYSIS OF THE ROSE AND POPPY. 
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The shape of the calyx is “ urnform ,” the calyx is “ inferi- 
or” or below the germ ; it is u five cleft,” or has five divisions 
around the border ; “ it is fleshy,” or thick and pulpy, “ con- 
tracted towards the top “ petals 5,” (this is always the case 
with a rose in its natural state, unassisted by cultivation;) “ seeds 
numerous , bristly, fixed to the sides of the calyx within.” 
There is no seed vessel, or pericarp to the rose ; but the calyx 
itself swells into a berry which is red when ripe. The apple 
is formed in the same manner, you can at any time at the end 
of an apple opposite the stem, observe the divisions of the top 
of the calyx. 
The genus Rosa contains many species, distinguished one 
from another by the different shape of the germ, the smoothness 
or roughness of the stems, the presence or absence of thorns, 
the shape of the leaves, and the manner in which the flowers 
grow upon the stalks, whether solitary or crowded together, in 
pairs, or scattered, whether erect or drooping. 
The Moss rose, Rosa muscosa, is distinctly marked by the 
hairs, resembling moss, which cover the stems of the calyx ; 
these hairs are a collection of glands containing a resinous 
and fragrant fluid. 
Analysis of the Poppy. 
The Poppy affords a good illustration of the 12th class, Poly- 
andria ; here are numerous stamens, always more than ten, 
sometimes more than a hundred, growing upon the receptacle ; 
the Poppy has but one pistil, and therefore belongs to the first 
order, Monogynia ; the genus is Papaver ; it has a “ calyx of 
two leaves,” but these fall off as soon as the blossom expands, 
and are therefore called “caducous;” corolla (except when 
double) “ is four petaled it has no style, but the stigma is set 
upon the germ, and is therefore said to be sessile. 
The germ is large and somewhat oblong, the stigma is flat and 
radiated. The pericarp is one-celled or without divisions, it 
opens at the top, by pores, when the seeds are ripe. 
The species of Papaver which is cultivated in gardens, is the 
somniferum, which name signifies to produce sleep. It is often 
called Opium Poppy. By observing the figures which stand at 
the right hand of the Papaver in the generic description, you 
will find to what natural order the plant belongs. The number 
27 points to the natural families of Linnaeus ; this is the Rhjeadjea, 
which includes plants with capsules and caducous calyxes. 
Such plants, as to medicinal propeities, are anodyne (causing 
sleep,) and antiscorbutic (curing eruptions.) 
Different species of the genus Rosa — Analysis of the Poppy. Natural 
order, how pointed out 1 — 
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