92 PANAX QUINQUEFOLIUM. 
off in a digitate manner, and are smooth, com- 
pressed and furrowed above. Leafets oblong, ob- 
ovate, sharply serrate, acuminate, smooth on both 
sides, with scattered bristles.on the veins above. 
The flowers, which are small, grow in a simple 
umbel on a round, slender peduncle, longer than 
the petioles. The inyoluecrum consists of a mul- 
titude of short subulate leafets, interspersed with 
the flower-stalks. These stalks or rays are so 
short as to give the appearance of a head, rath- 
er than umbel., In the perfect flowers the calyx 
has five small acute teeth; the corolla five petals, 
which are oval, reflexed. and deciduous. Sta- 
mens five; with oblong anthers. Styles two, re- 
flexed, persistent; germ large, inferior, ovate- 
heart shaped, compressed, The berries are kid- 
ney shaped, retuse at both ends, compressed, of a 
bright scarlet colour, crowned with the calyxand 
styles, and containing two semi-circular ‘seeds. 
In most umbels there are flowers with only one 
«style, ‘in which ease the berry has a semi-cordate 
form, as ‘represented in fig. 3. Sometimes there 
are three styles and three seeds. The:outermost 
flowers ripen first, and their berries often obtam 
their full size before the central ones are expand- 
ved. The middle flowers are frequently abortive. 
