296 NETTLE FAMILY. 



feeds, from which mstor-oil is expres.-cd, and in ornamental grounds for its 

 magnificent foliage ; the peltate and palmately 7 -11-cleft leaves l-2 broad, 

 or even more : fl. late summer. 



5. JATROPHA. (Derivation of name obscure.) Chiefly tropical plants ; 

 one is a weedy plant wild !S., viz. 



J. iirens, var. Stimuldsa (or .1. STIMII.<VA), TiiKAD-SoFTLYor Srntr.E- 

 XI.TTI.E, names rcferriiiir to its stin^in.ir liristly hairs, which are like those of 

 Nettles: dry sand\ soil, branching, (/ - 12' . lii.uli ; leaves rounded heart-shaped 

 3 - 5-lohed or variou-ly elei't or parted ; ilowers slender, white ; stamens 10, 

 their filaments, almo-t separate, y. 



8. BUXTJS, BOX. (Ancient Latin, from the Greek name of the Box- tree ) 



B. semperyirens, THEE Box, and its more common var. V\NA, the 

 DWAKK Box, with much smaller leaves, from the Mediterranean, arc planted 

 North ehieily tor borders, especially the Dwarf Box. 



7. PACHYSANDRA. (The name in Greek means thick stamens.) 2/ 



P. prociimbens. Kocky woods, \V. slope of the Alletrhanies. and in <ome 

 gardens ; devclopin.;- it- copious spikes from the hase of the short procumbent 

 densely tufted stems, in c-;rly spring. 



103. URTICACE.2E, NETTLE FAMILY 



This family, taken in (he largest sense, includes very various 

 apetalous plants, with monoecious or dioecious flowers (except in 

 the Elm Family), having a distinct calyx free from the 1 -seeded 

 fruit. Inner liark generally tough. Leaves with stipule.-!;, which 

 are sometimes early deciduous. There are four suborders. 



I. ELM FAMILY. Trees, the juice not milky. Leaves 

 alternate, 2-ranked, simple : stipules small and falling eariv. 

 Flowers monceciously polygamous, many of them perfect, with 

 the filaments not. indexed in the bud, and 2 diverging styles or 

 long t-tigmas. Ovary 1-2-celled, with 1 or 2 hanging ovules, 

 in fruit always 1 -eel led and 1 -seeded. 



* Frnil '////, winged or nut-like. Anthers turned outirnrds. 



1. I.' I, MI'S. Calyx bell hapc,!. 4-!t-clel't. Stamens !-!': lilament^ long and 

 ^lender. Ovary mo-ily U-eelled, lieeomin^ a 1-eelied thin samara or key- 

 fruit winded all nmnd (I,''s<on>. |i. \'2'2. l}^. '{'.)()). Flowers in eln-tei> in 

 axils of la-1 year's leaves, in early -pi-ini:. before the leaver of the M-asmi, 



purplish or yellowish-green. ! it-veined, serrate. 



2. ri.AN'l-'li'A. Like Mini, but llnueix more jiolvLraninns, apjM-arin;: with the, 



leaves in -mall axillary cluster-: Ine lobes of fl: i-:dy\ j'.nd -tamens only -1 

 or 5; the 1-eelle.l 1-..\ uleii ..vary lormin^ a windless nut, like fruit. 



# * Fruit a bvrrij-like ijlilnilir tni>i[l i/riipc. AnllifS liirnul imniril. 



3. CKLTIS. Calyx 6 - 6-parted, persistent Stamens r> or fi. Stigma- ver\ 



ta|ierini;. O\;irv and dnijie 1-cellcd, l--eedeil. I'lmveiv ureeni-li, in (In- 



Is of the leave-; the lower Ones ni"-tlv staminate ainl elu-fered, the upper 



fertile and mo-tl solitar ' B D ler 



IT. FIG FAMILY. Trees with milky or colored acrid or 

 poisonous juice. Leaves alternate. Flowers strictly monoecious or 

 fliircious. Styles or stigmas commonly 2. 



1. Flcirers of both kinds iiii.ri-il, l/nhi;/ the inside tif a closed fleshy receptacle, or 

 hollow jtower-stalk, irhirh rijmif inlii ii-h'il ti-eins to be ii fni t iif berry. 



4. FHTS. Keceptaele in which the flowers are concealed borne in the axil 01 

 Akene seed-like. Stipules lan_'>\ sncro--ively envelopinp; tin; 

 vomit' leaves in Hie hud, falling oiV n< the leaves expand 



