5s4 dodecandria monogykia; 



2. Sarmentosa. 



D. foliis ovatis, acutis, I Leaves ovate, acute^ 

 basi rotundatis, apice ser- | rounded at base, serrate 

 ratfs. Willd. enum. p, j at top. 

 i65. 



J. 



Sp. pi. 2. p. 850. Pursh, 1 p. 3£8. 

 D. Forsythia, Mich. 1. p. 282. 

 Forsythia scandens, Walt. n. 1/54. 



^fm climbing, throwing out radicles and atbchmg itself to tb'e 

 bark ot trees, which it dscends to a considerable height, leaves op- 

 Dosite, on long betioles, broad, sometimes acuminate* sprinkled with 

 hairs on the under surface. Flowers in terminal corymbs. Calyx 

 turbinate ; segiAents very minute, acute. Petals much longer tUn 

 the calyx, narrow, white. Stamens as long as the corolla, inserted 



at the summit of the tube of the calyx, ^^e short, very thick. 

 Stigma obtuse anded. ■> n > j 



1 oamp ncft soils, along the mar 

 May— June. 



PORTULACCA. Gen. pl. 8M. 



Cahjx 2-fidus. Petala 

 5. Capsuta l-lociilaris, 



cireumscissa. 



1. Oleracea. 

 p. foliis cuneifonnibus; 

 floribus sessilibus. Sp. 



pl. 2. p. 859. 



Walt. p. 144. Pursh, 2. p. 5f 



t 



Calyx 2 cleft. Petals 

 5. Capsule 1 celled, cir- 

 cumscissed; 



Leaves wedge shaped 

 flowers sessile. 



bri^cHnl' vfrr.fr'''^'" V'^'*''^*^' ^'«^ ^^^ ^"»«'^«ts brect, terete 

 vSroSeT'^i S"l.^-^^^ ^»H-^*^ -d opposite, obovate 



tTnZ Sn te^'ur/'^'^^r' ^^*'^^' ^^^j glabrous; generffijof a purple 



Calyx su 



flower decays: 



thpbarW nf ih^ =<»„ t'^'="'-*=«i'-j Closing atter the flower aecaj-* 

 yeUow lonJrfhn?r°*'.''^'^P''^«^^d- ^^««^^ obovate, emarginate, 

 the cor^ U ^%f^^^^ «^«"'^«^ 1 2/ shorter than 



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