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Carpels 3 or more ; petals large ; floating leaves not dissected. 

 Carpels distinct. 



Carpels not in a receptacle. Fam. 26. Cabombaceae. 2 75. 



Carpels in a fleshy receptacle. Fam. 27. Nelumbonaceae. 2 76. 



Carpels united into a compound ovary. Fam. 28. Nymphaeaceae. 2 77. 



** Land or marsh plants (some Ranunculaceae aquatic). 



Stamens numerous; sepals distinct; petals present (except in some Ranunculaceae and in Calyco- 



carpum of the Menispermaceae). 

 Receptacle not hollow; leaves alternate (except in Clematis). 



Flowers perfect (except in some species of Clematis and Thalictrum). 



Fruit aggregate, cone-like; trees; sepals and petals in 3 series, or more, of 3. 



Fam. 29. Magnoliaceae. 2 : 80. 



Fruit not aggregate, the carpels separate, at least when mature. 

 Anthers not opening by valves; pistils usually more than i. 



Sepals 3 ; petals 6 ; shrubs or trees. Fam. 30. Annonaceae. 2 : 83. 



Sepals 3-15; petals (when present) about as many; our species herbs or vines 

 (Xanthorrhisa shrubby). Fam. 31. Ranunculaceae. 2:84. 



Anthers opening by valves (except in Podophyllum) ; pistil i. 



Fam. 32. Berberidaceae. 2 : 126. 

 Dioecious climbing vines with simple leaves ; fruit drupaceous. 



Fam. 33. Menispermaceae. 2: 130. 

 Receptacle hollow, enclosing the numerous pistils and achenes ; opposite-leaved shrubs. 



Fam. 34. Calycanthaceae. 2: 132. 



Stamens 9 or 12, in 3 or 4 series of 3 ; anthers opening by valves ; aromatic trees or shrubs with no 

 petals, more or less united sepals, and i pistil. Fam. 35. Lanraceae. 2 : 133. 



2. Carpels 2 or more, united into a compound ovary; stamens hypogynous; sepals mostly distinct. 



* Plants not insectivorous. 



Order 13. PAPAVERALES (Rhoeadales). 

 Sepals 2 (very rarely 3 or 4) ; endosperm fleshy. 



Flowers regular; stamens 8-many. Fam. 36. Papaveraceae. 2: 136. 



Flowers irregular; stamens 6. Fam. 37. Fumariaceae. 2: 141. 



Sepals or calyx-segments 4-8 ; endosperm none. 



Capsule 2-celled by a longitudinal partition, usually 2-valved, rarely indehiscent ; sepals and 

 petals 4. Fam. 38. Cruciferae. 2:146. 



Capsule i-celled, of 2-6 carpels. 



Sepals and petals 4, regular, or petals irregular; capsule of 2 carpels, 2-valved. 



Fam. 39. Capparidaceae. 2 : 196. 

 Sepals and petals 4-8, irregular; capsule of 3-6 carpels, 3-6-valved at the top ; disk large. 



Fam. 40. Resedaceae. 2: 199. 



** Insectivorous plants, secreting a viscid liquid, with basal leaves and scapose flowers. 



Order 14. SARRACENIALES. 



Ovary 3-5-celled ; leaves hollow. Fam. 41. Sarraceniaceae. 2: 201. 



Ovary i-celled; leaves circinate in unfolding, the blade flat. Fam. 42. Droseraceae. 2: 202. 



3. Carpels solitary, or several and distinct, or sometimes united; stamens mostly perigynous or 



epigynous; sepals mainly united or confluent with the concave receptacle. Order 15. ROSALES. 



* Small aquatic fleshy herbs, with a spathe-like involucre, and a 2-s-celled capsule ; perianth none. 



Fam. 43. Podostemaceae. 2 : 205. 

 ** Land or rarely swamp plants without an involucre. 

 t Endosperm present, usually copious and fleshy. 



Herbaceous plants. 



Carpels as many as the sepals. 



Carpels distinct, or united below, longitudinally dehiscent ; succulent plants. 



Fam. 44. Crassulaceae. 2:205. 

 Carpels united to the midlde, circumscissile ; plants not succulent. 



Fam. 45. Penthoraceae. 2:211. 

 Carpels fewer than the sepals. 



Carpels 3" or 4, united into a i-celled ovary; staminodia present. 



Fam. 46. Parnassiaceae. 2:211. 

 Carpels mostly 2, distinct, or only partly united ; no staminodia. 



Fam. 47. Saxifragaceae. 2:214. 

 Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves opposite. Fain. 48. Hydrangeaceae. 2 : 230. 



Leaves alternate. 



Fruit a 2-s-celled capsule. 



Capsule thin-walled, almost free from the calyx-tube (hypanthium). 



Fam. 49. Iteaceae. 2 : 233. 

 Capsule woody, or thick-walled, adnate to the calyx-tube. 



Ovule solitary, suspended; calyx-limb or calyx-limb and petals present. 



Fam. 50. Hamamelidaceae. 2 : 234. 



Ovules several or numerous ; no calyx-limb nor petals. Fam. 51. Altingiaceae. 2:235. 

 Fruit a i -celled berry. Fam. 52. Grossulariaceae. 2 : 236. 



tt Endosperm none, or very little (copious in Opulaster, shrubs of the Rosaceae). 



t Trees with broad leaves and small monoecious capitate flowers. 



Fam. 53. Platanaceae. 2:242. 



tt Flowers perfect (dioecious in Aruncus and in species of Fragaria of the Rosaceae ; in Gleditsia 

 and Gymnocladus of the Caesalpiniaceae, and rarely in some Fabaceae). 



