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Stamens and ovaries crowded, without calyx or corolla, 
on solid spikes or round heads. 
; Stamens and ovaries collected on separate, rounded 
heads. ) 
| | Sparga‘nium. Bure 
_ Stamens and ovaries on a solid spike. 
lees partly hidden by a large leaf, or “spathe ”’ 
leaves stalked, triangular. 
i A'rum macula’tum. Cuckoo-pint. 
a not enclosed; leaves not stalked. 
oe erect, at the top of a long stalk; leaves 
scentless. 
ome 
L Ty’pha. /eedmace. 
Spike inclined, from the side of the leaf-like stem 
leaves aromatic when crushed. 
Acorus Calamus. Sweet (lag. 
:.. ers with a calyx, or corolla, or both. 
Leaves all from the root of the plant. 
Flowers crowded on a stalked oblong head _ or- 
‘ spike. } 
{ Planta’go. Plantain. J 
Flowers on separate stalks; shore plant, with very 
narrow leaves. ) 
Littorella lacus'tris. Shoreweed/ 
Stem bearing one or more leaves. 
Leaves divided nearly or quite to the stalk. 
( Leaflets, or segments, in a row down each sa 
of the ine stalk or mid-rib. 
CRUCIF' ERA.’ 
Segments radiating from the base of the leaf. 
Flowers with 5 large, roundish, concave sepals ; ) 
F stamens numerous. 
| Helleborus.” 
~Flowers small, with 4 (rarely 5) segments,~ 
| usually with four smaller ones behind 
L them ; stamens 4. Alchemil’la. 
Leaves not deeply divided. 
Leaves roundish, with finely toothed lobes; flowers. 
[ with 4 larger and 4 smaller segments. | 
Alchemil'la. 
~Neither leaves nor flowers of this description. 
-Leaves stalked, kidney-shaped, entire ; sepals 4, 
2 enlarging in fruit. 
| Oxyr'ia renifor’mis Mountain Sorrel. 
~Leaves not kidney-shaped. 
A ag SR 
