DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 157 
ments and style. Found in many varieties, sometimes the calyx 
white or nearly so and the petals dark or with dark calyx and light 
petals. Cultivated from Chili. 
Ill. CIRCAZA, Tourn. 
Slender, erect herbs, with creeping rootstocks. Stem simple. 
Leaves opposite, petioled. Flowers small, in terminal and 
lateral racemes. Calyx-tube ovoid, the limb 2-parted, reflexed, 
deciduous. Petals 2, inversely heart-shaped, inserted with the 
2 stamens under a margin of a disk which is borne on the 
pistil. Ovary 1—-2-celled ; style thread-like ; stigma knobbed, 
2-lobed ovules, 1 ineach cell. Fruit ovoid, not splitting open, 
covered with hooked bristles. 
1. C. lutetiana, L. ENCHANTER’s NIGHTSHADE. Stem 1-2 ft. 
high, glandular-downy. Leaves ovate, faintly toothed, long-petioled. 
Flowers 1 in. in diameter, white or pink, on slender pedicels, jointed 
at the base. Damp, shaded places; very common. 
71. ARALIACEZ. GInsenG FAMILY. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, simple or com- 
pound ; stipules adnate to the petiole or wanting. Flowers 
regular, in umbels or heads. Limb of the calyx borne on 
top of the ovary, very short. Petals 5, very deciduous. 
Stamens 5, filaments bent inward, anthers versatile. Ovary 
2-celled or several-celled ; styles or stigmas as many as the 
cells; ovule 1 in each cell. Fruit a stone-fruit or berry. 
[The English ivy, an important member of the family, flowers 
too late for school study. ] 
ARALIA, Tourn. 
Perennial plants with pungent or spicy roots, bark, and fruit. 
Leaves once or more compound. Flowers more or less mone- 
cious, white or. greenish, in umbels. Stone-fruit, berry-like. 
1. A. hispida, Vent. Bristty SARSAPARILLA, WItp ELDER. 
Stem 1-2 ft. high, rather shrubby below, with prickly bristles. 
Leaves once or twice pinnate; leaflets ovate, acute, cut-serrate and 
