DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. ovr 
$95. TRIBULUS. L. (Caltrops.) 
‘Calix 5-parted. Petals 5, ‘Spreading. Style 
none; stigma partly 5-cleft. Capsules usually 
“5, gibbous, mostly spinose, each 2 or 3 seeded. 
Herbaceous plants, mostly prostrate or decumbent; 
seals abruptly pinnate, flowers solitary, alternate, yel- 
Species. 1. T.* trijugatus. Leaflets 3 pair, terminal 
ones largest, under side pubescent; capsules 5, small, 1- 
seeded, muricate, spineless. Has. In wastes and gar- 
dens, as a weed around Savannah in Georgia, probably 
introduced from the West India islands, allied to T: maz 
mus, but certainly distinct. Ons. Annual; stem diffuse, 
ree flower couse that of a small Ciatus. Sta- 
mina 10, small. Fruit smooth, turbinate, pentangular, 
acuminated, not larger than that of Pyrola, capsules 5, 1- 
seeded, cristately muricate, attached to a large common 
axis. 
Of this genus there are Zother speciesin tropical Ame- 
rica, 1 a Devo, and 1 common to Barbary and the 
south of Europe. 
$96. DIONABA. E. (Venus’s Fly-trap.) 
Calix 5-parted. Petals 5. Siigne 
ate, spreading. siete 
ous, i-celled, many. seeded, _ 
Herbaceous; 
base to prods aq jamose 
pelts von lately Ste sotmninating #0 an articulated 
circular Pig eg ae to the light, and re-_ 
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