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130 ROSACE.E. 



the Rose ; or the carpels may be completely sunk in a 

 juicy fruit, with the seeds inside hard stones as in the 

 Hawthorn, or in horny cases as in the Apple and Pear. 

 All these variations in the fruit are met with in our flora. 



Species over i,ooo, all over the world but mostly in temper- 

 ate climates and the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



r Leaves simple, entire or toothed not lobed . . . . b 



I Leaves rounded, with five or seven rounded finely toothed 



a •{ lobes. Flowers small and greenish /. 137 



I ALCHEMILLA. 



Leaves lobed or of several leaflets , e 



Leaves 3 to 5 inches quite entire : fruit leathery, mallet- 

 shaped p. 130. PYGEUM. 



Leaves entire or toothed : fruit juicy enclosing a stone, c 

 ' Leaves J^ inch, silvery below : small shrub. . . p. 140. 



COTONEASTER. 



Leaves 3 to 6 inches : trees . . . /• 139. photinia. 

 Flowers 2 to 3 inches across : carpels enclosed in the 



calyx-tube /. 138. rosa. 



Flowers i inch or less, carpels on the outside of the 



torus f 



r Carpels in fruit juicy : leaves pinnate or lobed : prickly 



e i shrubs p. 131. rubus. 



[ Carpels in fruit dry (achenes) : herbs g 



J Leaflets three only, torus in fruit juicy p. 135. fragaria. 

 \ Leaflets five or seven, torus in fruit dry /. 136. potentilla. 



PYGEUM. F.B.L 51 V. 



Evergreen shrubs and trees with small greenish, often 

 imperfect flowers in axillary racemes. Stamens many. 

 Carpel one only, ripening to a transversely oblong or 

 mallet-shaped leathery fruit, attached by its middle. 



Species 18. South Asia, Ceylon, Malaya. 



Pygeum gardncri Hook.f. ; F.B.L ii 321, V 12 ; a large 

 tree with smooth pointed leaves and axillary spikes of 

 small velvety flowers of many sepals but no petals, and 



