SARRACENIACEAE 583 
ing, incurved over the orifice of bn po seape erect, shorter than 
be leaves or Slightly longer: flower 4—6 broad: sepals ovate, A 5-3 
. long, obtuse: petals FE fiddle shaped, 4—5 e m. long, rounde d at the 
ape, du dim s style-disk 2. em. broad, the jn notehed: capsule 
out 1.5 em. broad. [S. variolaris DS . |— (HoopDED eu m 
Me ands and hogs, Coastal Plain, Okeechobee region, Fla. to SE N. C.—Spr.— 
Hybridizes with S. flava, S. psittacina, S. rubra, and S. 250 
ORDER ROSALES-—RosAL ORDER 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees, or rarely aquatic plants or vines. Leaves with 
simple or compound blades. Flowers mostly perfect. Calyx and corolla 
present and sometimes irregular, or the latter occasionally, or both rarely, 
wanting. Androecium of few or many stamens. Gynoecium of l-several 
distinct or united earpels. Fruit various. 4 
Aquatic alga-like fleshy herbs, with spathe-like involucres: perianth usually wanting. 
Fam. 1. PODOSTEMACEAE. 
Terrestrial or swamp plants, without spathe-like in- 
volucres: perianth present. 
, Endosperm present, usually copious and fleshy: 
stipules mostly wanting. 
Herbs. 
Carpels as many as the sepals: stamens as 
many as the sepals or twice as many. 
Plants succulent: carpels distinct or- 
united at the base, opening lengthwise. Fam. 2. SEDACEAE. 
arpels i to 
. the middle, circumscissile. Fam. 3. PENTHORACEAE. 
han the se A 
Staminodia present: earpels 3 4, 
wholly united into a i-celled EAE ca 
ciu Fam, 4. PARNASSIACEAE, 
Staminodia wanting: ehrel mostly 2, . 
eee or partially united. Fam. 5. SAXIFRAGACEAE. ~et 
Shrubs or tree 
Leaves o nose "A Fam. 6. HYDRANGEACEAE. 
Leaves alternate. 
"Fruit a 2-celled capsule. 
Capsule thin-walled, Ot free from 
the hypanthiu 
Stamens 5: span tium flattish, 
not accrescent: leaves without 
stipules. Fam. 7. ITEACEAE. 
Stamens numerous: hypanthium 
hemispheric, inflated in age: 
PRAE with stipules, — Opulas- . 
Fam. 12. ROSACEAE. 
Capsule Sods or thick-walled, mani- 
fe d y adnate to the '"hypan- 
Calvx 6 or calyx and corolla, pres- 
ent: ovule solitary in ,each car- 
Del suspended. Fam. 8. HAMAMELIDACEAE. 
eun Ssa A wanting : ovules 
merous in each 
dg horizontal. Fam. 9. ALTINGIACEAE. 
ruit a n ‘celled berry. Fam. 10. GROSSULARIACEAE. 
Endosperm wanti ing or scant (copious in Opulaster 
in Mose USE : eee E presen 
Flowers monoe s, in dense capitate clusters. Fam. 11. PLATANACEAE. 
- Flowers perfect, pe if monoecious or dioecious, 
not in CIR clusters. 
l flowers regula 
Carpels several ra numerous, or if soli- 
tary bec ng an a he 
earns distinct, rarely adnate to the, 
hyp oa fruit achenes or 
follicle 
Sepals d petals 5: leaves 
mostly alternate. Fam. 12. ROSACEAE. 
