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late corolla. Stamens 5, triadelphous : anthers tortuous, connate, at length sep- 
arate Style single, with a cup-shaped disk surrounding its base. Stigmas 3. 
Fruit oval, smooth, many-seeded. 
1. M. pendula, L. Stem filiform, smooth; leaves rough, cordate, with 
3-5 angular-toothed lobes ; sterile flowers in small racemes ; the fertile solitary, 
on long peduncles; fruit oval, blackish, drooping. — Light soil, Florida to North 
Carolina, and westward. May- August. — Flowers small, yellow. 
3. SICYOS, L. 
Flowers monecious. Calyx flattish, with 5 subulate or minute teeth. Petals 
5, united below into a rotate corolla. Stamens 5, monadelphous or triadelphous. - 
Ovary 1-celled, l-ovuled. Style slender. Stigmas 3. Fruit membranaceous, 
bristly, 1-seeded.— Annual herbs. Sterile and fertile flowers mostly from the 
same axil, ; 
1. S. angulatus, L. Plant hairy and clammy ; leaves thin, cordate, with 
3-5 acuminate denticulate lobes ; sterile flowers racemose ; the fertile ones in 
peduncled clusters, whitish. — River-banks, Florida, and northward. June- 
August. 
Orver 62. SURIANACEZE. (Surrana Famer.) | 
A dowry shrub, with alternate crowded exstipulate leaves, and perfect 
yellow flowers, in small axillary bracted racemes.— Calyx 5-parted, per- 
_ sistent ; the base filled with a fleshy torus, which bears the ovaries, petals, 
and stamens. Petals 5, oblong-obovate. Stamens 10, hairy, the alternate 
ones short and sterile. Ovaries 5, distinct, with 2 erect collateral ortho- 
tropous ovules in each. Styles 5, each arising from the central angle of 
the ovary near the base, thickened upwards. ‘Garpels 1-seeded, indehis-: 
cent. "Seeds without albumen. Embryo hooked. 
: 1. SURIANA, Plum. 
Character same as the order. 
1. S. maritima, L. — Sea-shore, South Florida. — Shrub 4°- 6° > high. 
Leaves linear-spatulate, fleshy, imbricated near the summit of the branches. 
Racemes shorter than the leaves. 
Orper 63. CRASSULACEJE. (Onrme Fancy) -— 
Succulent herbs, with exstipulate leaves, and regular perfect and mo: 
:  Symoe flowers Sepals 3 - 20, more or less united at the base, 
