1 1 I) KI >~>y. KAMII.V. 



I. ALMOND or PLUM FAMILY: consists of trees or 

 shrub?, with simple leave-, stipule.- free from tin- peiiole (often 

 minute or early deciduous so thai tin-re may appear to be none), 

 a calyx which is deciduous after Howerini:. and a .-ingle pi-til, its 

 ovary tipped with a slender style v Lessons, p. 103, fig. 213), con- 

 taining a pair of ovules and becoming a simple drupe or stone fruit. 

 (Lessons p. 120, tig. 375.) 



1. PHTXI'S. Calvx with :i bell-shaped or urn-shaped tube and 5 spreading lobes. 



Petals 5, and >tamens 3-5 times as many, or indefinitely numerous, inserted 

 on the throat of the calyx. Flowers white or rose-color. 



II. ROSE FAMILY TROPKR : consists of herbs or shrubs, 

 with stipules either free from or united with the base of the petiole, 

 calyx persisting below or around the fruit, which is composed of 

 sometimes one but commonly several or many distinct pistils. 



1. Calyx not. with a fleshy tube or cup. nor closed over the fruit. 



* Ovaries about 5 (2 - 12), breaming little pads, several- (2 -10-) seeded: calyx uith 



only 5 or rarely 4 lobes. 



2. SPIR.EA. Shrubs or perennial herbs, with stipule-; sometimes minute or ob- 



solete, sometimes conspicuous, and white or rose-purple flowers. Calyx open 

 and short, mostly 5-cleft, not enclosing the pods. Petals equal, commonly 

 broad. Stamens 10-50. 



3. GILLKNIA. Herbs, with nearly white flower- and almost sessile leaves of 3 



leaflets. Cnlvx narrow, oblong, 5-tootiied, enclosing the 5 pistils (which at 

 first lightly cohere in a mass) and the little pods. Petals rather unequal, 

 lance-linear. Stamens 10 - 20, not projecting. 



* * Ovaries few or many, single-muled, becoming dry al-enes in fruit above the open 



ami mostly sjtreadniy calyx: stamens numerous. 

 *- Pistils few, only 2 - 8. 



4. KERRI A. Shrub, with long green branches, simple and coarsely-toothed leaves, 



and yellow flowers terminating the branchlets of the season. Calyx with 5 

 somewhat toothed large lobes. Petals bn>a 1. 



5. W ALDS TKIXIA. Low perennial herbs, with chiefly root-leaves, either lobed 



or compound, and a few yellow flowers on a short scape. Calyx with a top- 

 shaped tube and 5 spreading lobes, alternate with which are sometimes 

 5 minute teeth or bractlets. Petals obovnte. Styles deciduous by a joint. 



,_ .(_ Pistil* numerous anrl heaped in a head: calyx (except in one Geum) augmented 

 ii-iih iii/i/it inn'il diitur luln-s or brai tkts alternating u-ith the 5 proper lobes: 

 leaves mostly compound, 



6. GKUM. Perennial herbs. Calyx with a bell-shaped, top-shaped, or hemispher- 



ical tube or cup. Akenes narrow, or tapering t<> the ba-e, tipped with the 

 long persistent style, or the greater portion of it, in the form of a naked or 

 hairy tail. Seed erect. Receptacle ilry, conical or cylindrical. 



7. POTENTILLA. Herbs, or one species "shrubby. Calyx flat or widely open 



Akenes small, on a dry receptacle, from which they at length fall. 



8. FR At! ARIA. 1'erennial low or stemless herbs, with runners; and loaves of 



3 leaflets. Calyx open, flat. Styles shot t and lateral. Akenes naked, small, 

 on the surface of an enlarged pulpy edible receptacle. (Lessons, p. 113, fig. 

 360, and p. 118, fig. 3HS.) 



* Ovaries several or many, 2-or/ilcl, in fruit becoming fleshy or pulp;/ anil 



1-StWei/, /'uritiuiti <( In mi nr ( lun/i-r <i/in- the flat or ir'nli ly op, 11 simply i)-cleft 



cahjj- : stamens numerous: styles short, naked, at length falling <<//'. 



9. DALIBAIIDA. Very low perennial tufted herb, with simple rounded-heart- 



shaped or kidney-shaped root-leaves and 1 - 2-flowered scapes. Calyx of 5 

 or even <! unequal sepals. Ovaries 5 - 10, in fruit merely neshy, becoming 

 almost drv and bony. 



10. KITE'S. Perennial herb- or shrubby plants. Ovaries numerous, in fruit 

 pulpy (berry-like, or more properly drupe-like, the inner hard part answering 

 to the stone of a cherry or peach on a small scale), crowded on the dry or 

 fleshy receptacle. (Lessons, p. 118, fig. 369, 370.) 



