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A child who loves flowers goes to school; he is given one of his favorites and told to pull it to pieces, look at its different parts, and label them with such words as petals, sepals, pistil, stamens; to these are presently added calyx, corolla, monopetalous, polypetalous, innate, adnate, indehiscent, etc., until the child's mind resembles a lumber room of senseless rubbish, in which the flower is buried and lost.

The leaves of this climber are broad, roundish, and smooth. The juice of its stalk is applied to heal excoriations of the tongue. A climbing plant with leaves resembling the box, and a small flosculous blossom. It is used as a medicine in fevers. It is burned to preserve children newly born from the influence of evil spirits. A shrub with monopetalous, stillated, purple flowers, growing in tufts.

It is mostly procured in those districts which lie inland of Tapanuli, but it is also found in Musi, where Palembang River takes its rise. The principal fibres take their rise from the peduncle. The young leaves are mostly of reddish hue. The blossoms grow six in number upon slender foot­stalks, close to the bottom of the leaf. They are monopetalous, small, white, stellated in six points.

In the fields of Messrs. Vilmorin, where it is largely cultivated for its seeds, individuals occur from time to time which are anomalous in this respect. They exhibit a tendency to produce connate petals. Their flowers become monopetalous, and the whole strain is designated by the name of Papaver bracteatum monopetalum.

I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell, of whom the great poet of nature says, A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more, would have been a whit roused from its apathy, by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.

I do not suppose that the dead soul of Peter Bell, of whom the great poet of nature says, A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more, would have been a whit roused from its apathy by the information that the primrose is a Dicotyledonous Exogen, with a monopetalous corolla and central placentation.