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GOODENIACEAE. 



1. SCAEVOLA L. 



Fleshy, stout herbs or shrubs, with alternate or rarely opposite, mostly entire 

 leaves, the flowers irregular, axillary, in dichotomous cymes or rarely solitary. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, or a mere border. Corolla white or blue, its lobes winged, its 

 tube split to the base on one side, villous within. Stamens 5, free, epigynous; 

 filaments distinct. Ovary inferior or nearly so, 2-eelled or rarely 1-celled; 

 stigma surrounded by a ciliate indusium. Ovules 1 in each cavity, or 2 in 1- 

 celled ovaries, erect. Berry with a fleshy exocarp and a bony or woody endo- 

 carp. [Latin, referring to the irregular flowers.] About 60 species, mostly 



Australian, the following typical. 



1, Scaevola Plumieri (L.) 

 Vahl. BEACH LOBELIA. INK- 

 BERRY. (Fig. 409.) Perennial, 

 nearly glabrous, more or less 

 shrubby, 2-5 high, much 

 branched and straggling. Leaves 

 alternate, obovate, l^'-S' long, en- 

 tire, shining, narrowed into very 

 short winged petioles, or nearly 

 sessile, with a tuft of silky hairs 

 in each axil; peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves; calyx-lobes much 

 broader than long, rounded; 

 corolla glabrous without, about 

 1' long, the tube woolly within, 

 split on one side to the base, the 

 lobes oblong-linear, with broad 

 crisped wings ; stamens nearly as 

 long as the corolla-tube, hanging 

 through the cleft; berry oval, 

 black, juicy, 2-seeded, o"-8" long. 

 [Lobelia Plumieri L. ; Scaevola Lobelia of Verrill.] 



Common on sea beaches. Native. Florida and the West Indies. Flowers 

 from spring to autumn. Doubtless reached Bermuda by floating. 



Family 4. CICHORIACEAE Reichenb. 

 CHICORY FAMILY. 



Herbs (two Pacific Island genera trees), almost always with milky, 

 acrid or bitter juice, alternate or basal leaves, and yellow, rarely pink, blue, 

 purple, or white flowers in involucrate heads (anthodia). Bracts of the 

 involucre in 1 to several series. Receptacle of the head flat or flattish, 

 naked, scaly (paleaceous), smooth, pitted, or honeycombed. Flowers all 

 alike (heads homogamous), perfect. Calyx-tube completely adnate to the 

 ovary, its limb (pappus) of scales, or simple or plumose bristles, or both, 

 or wanting. Corolla gamopetalous, with a short or long tube, and a 

 strap-shaped (ligulate) usually 5-toothed limb (ray). Anthers connate 

 into a tube around the style, the sacs sagittate or auricled at the base, not 

 tailed, usually appendaged at the summit, the simple pollen-grains usually 

 12-sided. Ovary 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous; style very slender, 2-cieft, 

 or 2-lobed, the lobes minutely papillose. Fruit an achene. Seed erect; 

 endosperm none; radicle narrower than the cotyledons. About 70 genera 

 and 1500 species, of wide geographic distribution. The family is also 

 known as LIGULIFLORAE. 



