CALYCIFLOR/ 11g 
with five segments. The petals are five in number, 
four or ten, or wanting, and the stamens are of the same 
number with filaments inflexed, inserted on the ovary, 
the anthers in two rowsand versatile. Thestyles are 
free or united, or absent, as many as the cells in the 
ovary. The stigma is terminal or decurrent, on the 
inner face of the style. 
The fruit is a drupe with as many stones as there 
are carpels, or it may be a berry. 
In Adoxa the fruit is deflexed after flowering. It 
may be fleshy or dry. The seed is pendulous, with 
thick albumen. 
Ivy (Hedera Helix). 
Even if there were not many trees in every country 
district covered with Ivy or church towers im- 
mortalised by Keats as clad in an Ivy mantle, this 
unique plant would find favour in the popular mind. 
There is no need indeed to point out its very 
characteristic features, for every boy and girl can 
name a specimen of Ivy without recourse to books or 
descriptions. 
The form of the leaf, the climbing or trailing habit, 
the late flowers and black berries in winter and its 
evergreen character serve from a general point of 
view to distinguish it. 
It is universal, and found at a height of 1500 ft. in 
Yorkshire. 
As it needs usually the support of trees, upon which 
