:210 Hexa]ndria. monogynia. 



is at Ihe sane time, by its affinity, as well as common r?" 

 scnblance u) Potlophylhim allied in some measure to tlic 

 JPapaveraceje lo which this lust genus ought to be 

 refeiTed. 



Species. 1. I), cymosa. An American genus of a sin- 

 gle species, indigenous to the high mountains of North 

 Carolina. 



305. CAULOPIIYLLUM. Mchaux, 



Calix 3 to 6-leaved, leaves small, unequal, 

 and caducous. Petals 6, unguiculate, opposite 

 the calix. Lepanthia 6, seated upon the claws 

 of the petals, carneous, suhienitorm, margin 

 l^lutinous. Anthers growing to the filaments, 

 cells opening by so many vertical elastic valves. 

 Drupe stipitate, by abortion 1 -seeded. 



Scarcely distinct from Leontice. Stem 2-leaved, leaves 

 twice or thrice pseudo-ternate, ultimate segments 3-lobed; 

 flowers in a small racemose panicle. (Caiix bracteiform, 

 3 to e-leaved, small and unequal, 2 or 3 of the leaves 

 often wimting. Petals ovate-lanceola'.e, unguiculate, mar- 

 gin reflected, 3 to 5-nerved. Lepanthia about one third 

 the length of ihe petals, unguiculate, narrow reniform, 

 with a cameous and glutinous mai-gin. Antheis as in all 

 ihe Berberides, having the cells closed by vertical 

 membranaceous vslves, which opening elastically from 

 the base, spring upwards in an erect or horizontal posi- 

 tion remaining attached to the summits of the anthers. 

 Style excentric, short; stigma like a crooked transverse 

 pubescent line. Germ ovate, veniricose, 2-seeded, seeds 

 seated upon the base of the ovarium; mature fruit dru- 

 paceous cartilaginous, 1-seeded; drupe stipitate.) 



Species. l.C. I'hnlictroides. In shady woods through- 

 out the Atlantic and western states. Near I'hiladelpliia, 

 but i-are. 



A genus of a single species. 



r>06. BERBERIS. L. (Barberry.) 



Calix 6-leaved. Petals 6, each bearing 2 

 glands upon the claw. Style none. Stigma 

 umbilicate. Berry 1 -celled, 2 to 4-seeded. (Fi- 

 laments of the stamina sensitive; springing 

 forward with elasticity on being touched near 

 the base.) 



