BATIDACEA. (BATIS FAMILY.) 411 
2-celled, extrorse. Ovary 2 —9-celled, the cells 1-ovuled. Style short or 
none: stigma lobed or incised. Drupe berry-like, globose, of 2— 9 one- 
seeded nutlets. Seeds erect. Embryo in the axis of copious fleshy 
albumen. 
| 4 CERATIOLA, Michx. 
Calyx bracted, of two fringed sepals. Corolla 2-petalled. Stamens 2: an- 
ther-cells globose. Ovary resting on a fleshy disk, 2-celled, 2-ovuled. Style 
short: stigma many-cleft. Drupe 2-seeded. — A heath-like erect verticillately 
much branched shrub, with small linear shining whorled leaves, and axillary 
(whorled) reddish flowers. 
l. C. ericoides, Michx. Dry barren sands, Florida to South Carolina. 
November. — Shrub 29 — 5° high, the young branches pubescent. Leaves 3 in a 
whorl, 4" — 6" long, the margins revolute. Petioles yellowish, appressed. Drupe 
yellowish, somewhat persistent. 
ORDER 121. BATIDACEJE. (Baris Famy.) 
Represented only by 
ob. BATIS, P. Browne. . 
Flowers dicecious, in axillary fleshy conical spikes.  Bracts of the sterile 
flowers round-cordate, persistent. Calyx cup-shaped, somewhat compressed, 
unequally 2-lipped. Petals 4, rhombic-ovate, clawed. Stamens 4, alternate with 
the petals, partly exserted : anthers oblong, introrse. Fertile flowers consoli- 
dated. Bracts deciduous. Calyx and corolla none. Ovary 4-celled, with a 
single erect anatropous ovule in each cell. Stigma sessile, broad, obscurely 
lobed. Drupe 4-seeded. Seed oblong, without albumen. Cotyledons fleshy. 
Radicle inferior.— A smooth maritime shrub, with the habit of Salicornia. 
Leaves opposite, fleshy, club-shaped, semi-terete. Stipules none. Petals white. 
1. B. maritima, L.— Salt marshes, Apalachicola, and southward. June- 
Sept. — Plant pale green, strong-scented. Stems prostrate, 29 — 39 long, the 
short branching flowering stems erect. Leaves 1! long. Spikes 3-5" long. 
Orper 122. URTICACEZE. (NrrrLE FawiLx.) 
