136 SYNOPSIS OF THE NATURAL SYSTEM. 
144 Fs. incomplete, collec’d. in a small, round, white head. Enrocautonacez. CLIX 
144 Flowers incomplete and mostly ona spadix. Ne Phe Mei et Se by 
144 Flowers complete (rarely re is never ona spadix. - - - - - - - 145 
145 Flowers regular. - - - - oo!) 6 HORNE ES eras Tee 146 
145 Flowers more or less irrepular: oe" | Ae ee Seems. (bist 
146 Perianth free from the ovary. - - - - - - © - = = = = = = = = 147 
146 Perianth adherent to the ovary. - - - - - = = = = = - = = = = 153 
147 Sepals and petals similarly colored. - - - - - - = - - - = = - 150 
147 Sepals and petals differently colored. - - - = - = - - - = = = 148 
148 Flowers solitary, or racemose, &c. - - - - = == = = =.= = - - 149 
148 Flowers densely capitate, yellow. - - - - Xynivacez. CLVIII 
149 Styles and stigmas distinct. Leaves radical. - ALtismacez. CXXXVIII 
149 Styles and stigmas united into 1. Leaves cauline. CommEtinacez. CLVII 
150 Styles and stigmas distinct. - - - - - - - = = = - = = = = = 151 
150 Styles and stigmas united intol. - - - - - = - - - - - 152 
151 Perianth scale-like, dry. - - - - - - § cP UNCAGINEE. CX XXVIII 
151 Perianth petaloid, ‘oreen or colored. Aerial plants. Mertantuacez. CLV 
151 Per. petaloid, small. Plants float’g in water. Hyprocnaripacez. CXXXIX 
152 Flowers succulent and withering, colored. - - - - - - Liiacez. CLIII 
152 Flowers dry and (if colored) scarious. - - - - -JuncAcez. CLVI 
153 Stamens3, - - - - - - - - - - - Masi CXLIX 
153 Stamens 6. - - - - oe se ee - - 154 
154 Leaves equitant and channeled G: 216, 1). H2#MoDORACEZ. “CXLVIII 
154 Leaves flat and not nen - - a CXLVII 
155 Ovary inferior. - - - - - - - - - - - - 156 
155 Ovary superior. - ities " PonredERiaceZ: CLIV 
156 Stamens gynandrous (§ 74, Xx. ) - - Orcuipacez. CXL 
156 Stamen free, 1 only, with half an anther. - CANNACEE. 
156 Stamens free, 3, with extrorse anthers. - - - Iripacem. CXLIX 
157 Root floating i in water. Stamens 1 or 2. a CXXXV 
157 Root fixedin earth. - - - - - - - = =. se oe = “158 
158 Stems floating in water. - - - - - - AIADACER. CXXXVII 
158 Stems erect, terrestrial. - - - - - - - - 159 
159 Spadix with a spathe, or ona ae like aie : - - Advosen CXXXIV 
159 Spadix without a spathe, and not on a scape. TypHacez. CXXXVI 
160 Flowers perfect, solitary, or 2—3. - - - - TritLtiacez. CLI1 
160 Flowers dicecious. - - -- - - - - - - - 161 
161 Leaves cauline, mostly climbing shrubs. - - 162 
161 Leavesradical.. - - -'- - + = - = LISMACEE. OXXXVII 
162 Fruit a thin, 3-cornered capsule. - - - - - - Dioscoreacez. CL 
162 Fruit a globose, fleshy berry. - - - - - - - Smuiracez. CLI 
Sec, VI. Orders of the Glumaceous Endogens. 
163 Stems mostly solid. Sheaths entire. - - - - - Cyprracez. CLX 
. 163 Stems mostly fistulous. Sheaths split down to the nodes, Graminez. CLXI 
Sec. VIE. Orders of Cryptogamia. 
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164 Plants consisting of woody and vascular tissue.- - - - - - - - = - 165 
164 Plants consisting of cellular tissue only. - - - = - - - - - 166 
165 Fruit terminal, cone-like. Leaves sheath-like. - - Hqusswnaenes CLXII 
165 Fr. axillary, &c. Leaves l-veined.- - - - - Lycopopiacez, CLXIII 
165 Fruit borne upon the veiny, often contracted leaves. - - Firices. CLXIV 
165 Fruit radical or nearly so, of two kinds. Aquatics. MarsirEacez. CLXV 
166 Leaves veinless, distinct from each other or from the axis. Musex. (CLXVII 
166 Leaves veiny, mostly confluent into one expansion. Herpaticm. (CLXVIII 
167 Plants with no distinct axis of growth. - - - - - - - - 16 
167 Plants having a distinct axis, with whorled branches. CHARACER. CLXVI 
168 Plants aerial, dry, crustaceous, on trees, rocks, &c. - - Licnenes. (CLXIX 
168 Plants aerial, succulent, often ephemeral, never green. - - Funai. (CLXX 
168 Plants aquatic, consisting of simple vesicles or lobed fronds. Ate. (CLXX 
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