8'2 1'0i.v<;ai,ack.k. (mii.kwokt i'amii.v.) 



1. BYRSONIMA, Ki.h. 



Calyx with 10 glands at the ba.sc witliout. Petals 5. Stamens monadelphous 

 at the base. Styles 3. Fruit drupaeeous, 3-eelIcd, 3-seeded. — Kaeeiues ternii- 

 ual, simple or branched. 



1. B. lucida, Rieh. Smooth; stem mucli-branclied ; loaves coriaceous, 

 wedge-obovate, obtuse, entire, short-pctioled, shining above, j)aler beneath, vein- 

 less ; racemes erect, bracted, simple, twice the length of the leaves ; ])ediccls 

 slender, spreading ; petals yellow, orbicular-cordate, wavy, long-clawed ; drupe 

 smooth, globose. — South Florida. — A small shrub. Leaves 1' long. Dmpe 

 as large as a grain of pepper. 



OnDER 45. POLYGALACE^. (INIilkwout Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs, Avith entire exstipulate k-ctvos, and irregular bypogy- 

 nous monadelphous or diadclphous flowers. — Anthers 1-eelicd, opening 

 by a terminal pore. Ovary 2-celled, with a single anatropous pendulous 

 ovule in each cell. Seeds often caruuculate. Embryo straight in scanty 

 albumen. Radicle superior. 



1. POLY GALA, L. Milkwort. 



Sepals 5, persistent, uncfjuul ; the two lateral ones (win<is) larger and petal-like. 

 Petals 3, more or less united ; the middle one {keel) larger, and usually crested at 

 the apex. Stamens 8, rarely 6, united into a tube, or into two equal sets, and 

 also with the claws of the petals. Style curved, clavate. Stigma terminal or 

 lateral. Capsule 2-cellcd, 2-secdcd. Seeds suspended, carunculate. — Chiefly 

 herbs. Leaves alternate or whorlcd. Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, 

 rarely axillary, or radical and imperfect. 



^ 1 . Flowers ill f//ohose or oblong more or less compact spiles. 

 * Spike^s cori/inbose : hiennials. 



1. P. cymosa, Walt. Stem tall, simple; leaves scattered, linear, acute, 

 the upper biact-likc, tlic lowest long (6'- 9') and crowded; corymbs simple 

 or compound ; wings oblong, abruptly acute ; seeds minute, globose-obovate, 

 smooth ; caruncle none. (P. corymbosa, Ell. P. acutifolia, Torr. tj- Gray. P. 

 graminifolia, Pair. P attenuata, Nutt.) — Pine barren ponds, Florida to North 

 Carolina, and westward. July. — Stems 2° - 4° high. Corymbs very large and 

 compound, or small and simple. Flowers yellow, turning dark green in drying. 

 Plant yellowish. 



2. P. ramosa, Ell. Stem low, simple, or lirancliing and leafy from the 

 V)ase to the summit ; leaves fleshy, lanceolate, acute, scattered, the lowest spatu- 

 late-obovate, obtuse, crowded ; corymbs compound, fastigiatc ; wings ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; lobes of the caruncle small, rotmdish, embracing the 

 base of the minutcoval hairy seed. (P. corymbosa, Natl. P. cymosa, Poir.) — 

 Low open pine barrens, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. July- Septem- 

 ber. — Stems 6' - 12' high. Flowers yellow, turning green in drying. 



