316 ORDER 129. PALMACE^E. 



Leares linear Anthers 5 8 on each scale. Seed sitting in a fleshy cup TAXUS. 1 



Leaves lance-linear. Anthers 4. Seed fleshy-coated or dry, not in a cup TORREYA. 2 



Leaves linear to ovate, 1-veined. Anthers 2. Seed inverted, in a shallow cup PODOCAKPUS. 3 



Leaves flabelliform, fork-veined. Anthers 2. Seed erect, in a deep cup SALISBCRIA. 4 



1. TAXUS, Toum. YEW. Flowers axillary, the $ in aments. Stam. 

 or bracts peltate, r>-8-lobed, with 5 8 anther-cells. $ Flower solitary. 

 Ovule erect, becoming a nut-like seed, sitting in a deep fleshy cup-shaped 

 disk. ^ t) Leaves rigid, alternate, in 2 rows. 



1 T. Canadensis L. Dwarf T. (Fig. 166.) Shrub low or prostrate, branches as- 



cending; Ivs. mucronate, revolute-edged, 9 12"; stam. with 5 anther-colls ; fruit de- 

 pressed-globous, a black seed in an amber-colored cup. Rocky soils, northward. 



2 T. BACCATA. English Y. Tree of low stature, widely spreading ; Ivs. falcate, acute, 



flat, 1012" ; stam. with 68 anther-cells ; fruit oblong-bell-form. Europe. 



3 T. brevifolia N. Tree 15 50f, branches ascending ; Ivs. 710", very narrow ; sta. 



with 6 anther-ceils ; fruit oval. Fla. ? and Greg. The species are all closely related. 



2. TORREYA, Arn. Flowers axillary, the $ many in the ament, 

 bracts in 4 rows. Stamens with 4 anther-cells. $ Ovule with few bracts, 

 becoming drupe-like, at length a dry ovoid bony nut or seed. 5 5 Leaves 

 rigid, alternate, 2-rowed, pungent, lance-linear. 



T. taxiiolia Arn. Tree 15 30f, with erect strict form, dark green ; Ivs. 1 If long, 

 2-ranked as well as the branchlets ; fruit smooth, glaucous, ovoid, 9 II''. Fla. t 



3. FODOCARPUS, L'Her., contains some rare evergreens with remark- 

 ably large leaves (23' long). As yet very sparingly cultivated. 



4. SALISBURIA ADiANTirdLiA (or Ginkgo biloba). Tree 40 80f, from 

 Japan, strict and pyramidal. Lvs. fan-shaped, 2-lobed, fork-veined and petiolate, in struc- 

 ture much 1'ike the Maidenhair Fern. The flowers and fruit are seldom seen. 



PROVINCE, ENDOGENS, 



THE MONOCOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. Stems without the distinc- 

 tion of bark, wood, and pith, endogenous in growth ( 421). 

 Leaves mostly parallel- veined and alternate. Flowers 3 -par ted 

 (rarely V). Embryo with one cotyledon. (Prov. Acrogens, 360.) 



CLASS III. PETALIFEILE. Endogenous plants having 

 flowers either with a whorled perianth or without one, but 

 never glumaceous. (Class IV. GLUMIFEILE. Page 355.) 



COHORT 5. SPADICIFLOR^E. Flowers crowded on a 

 thickened or club-shaped rachis (spadix), mostly naked, 

 rarely with a scale-like perianth. (Cohort 6, p. 322.) 



ORDER CXXIX. PALMACE^E. PALMS. 



Trees or shrubs, chiefly with unbranched trunk* growing by the terminal 

 bud. Leave* large, plaited, on sheathing petioles, collected m one terminal 



