DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 69 
1. C. hybridum, L. MApLE-LEAVED GoosEFoorT. A tall annual 
herb 2-4 ft. high. Leaves 2-6 in. long, thin, bright green, long, 
taper-pointed, with several angled lobes on each side, terminating in 
pointed teeth. Flower-clusters rather large, consisting of loosely 
panicled racemes. A rather common weed. 
2. C. Botrys,L. JERUSALEM OAK. A low spreading plant coy- 
ered with sticky down. Leaves with slender petioles, oblong, sin- 
uately lobed or the lobes pinnate. Flowers in loose, diverging, 
leafless racemes. The whole plant is sweet-scented. Introduced 
from Europe and naturalized in gardens and along roadsides, 
27. PHYTOLACCACEZ. PoKkEwrEED FAMILY. 
Plants with alternate entire leaves. Flowers perfect, 5- 
parted, with the characters of the Goosefoot Family, but the 
ovary generally consisting of several carpels, which unite to 
form a berry. 
PHYTOLACCA, Tourn. 
Perennial herbs. Stems tall, branching. Leaves large, 
entire. Flowers small, in terminal racemes, pedicels bracted. 
Calyx of 4-5 nearly equal, persistent sepals. Stamens 5-15, 
inserted at the base of the calyx. Styles 5-12, recurved at 
the apex. Fruit a depressed-globose, juicy berry.* 
1. P. decandra, L. PoKEWEED. Stems erect, smooth, branched 
above, usually dark purple, 4—7 ft. tall; root large, fleshy, poisonous. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, smooth, acute, long-petioled. Racemes pedun- 
cled, many-flowered, opposite the leaves, flowers white, becoming 
purplish. Stamens 10, shorter than the sepals. Styles 10, car- 
pels 10; fruit a dark purple berry. A weed on waste ground. 
The young branches are often eaten like asparagus, and the root, 
known as “ garget root,” is used in medicine.* 
28. AIZOACEZ. Icr-PLANT FAMILY. 
Mostly fleshy plants, mainly natives of Africa. Flowers 
often large and showy. Stamens often doubled and some of 
them petal-like. Ovary 2—many-celled. 
[Our only very common genus belongs to a subfamily 
which has little resemblance to the fleshy “ ice-plants,” found 
in some gardens, which best represent the family as a whole. ] 
