174 FOUNDATIONS OF BOTANY 
VI. ANAGALLIS, Tourn. 
Annual or perennial herbs; stems erect or diffuse. Leaves 
opposite or whorled. Flowers axillary, peduncled. Calyx- 
tube 5-parted, persistent. Corolla wheel-shaped, 5-parted, 
longer than the calyx. Stamens 5, inserted on the base of 
the corolla; filaments bearded. Ovary globose; style slen- 
der ; stigma knobbed. Fruit a many-seeded capsule, the top 
coming off like a lid.* 
1. A. arvensis, L. Poor Man’s WEATHER-GLASS, PIMPERNEL. 
Annual; stem spreading, widely branched, 4-angled, smooth, 4-12 in. 
long. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, black-dotted beneath. Flowers 
on peduncles longer than the leaves, nodding in fruit, corolla fringed 
with glandular hairs, longer than the acute calyx-lobes, bright red, 
opening in sunshine. Capsule globose, tipped by the persistent 
style. Introduced, and common in fields and gardens.* 
77. EBENACEZ. Esony FaAmity. 
Trees orshrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, pinnately veined, 
without stipules. Flowers often dicecious. Calyx free from 
the ovary, persistent. Stamens 2-4 times as many as the 
divisions of the corolla. Ovary 3-12-celled ; ovules 1 or 2 in 
each cell. Fruita berry. Mostly tropical plants. 
I. DIOSPYROS, L. 
Flowers dicecious or somewhat moncecious, the staminate 
ones in cymes, the pistillate ones axillary and solitary. Calyx 
4-6-lobed. Corolla 4—6-lobed. Stamens in the staminate 
flowers usually 16, in the pistillate ones 8, imperfect. Fruit 
large, with the persistent calyx attached to its base, 4-8-seeded. 
1. D. virginiana, L. Persimmon. Trees, with rough, black bark 
and very hard wood. Leaves oval or ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate 
at the apex, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, entire and dark 
green, smooth above, pale and often downy beneath, short-peti- 
oled, deciduous; flowers yellowish-white, the parts mostly in 4’s; 
fruit globose, edible when ripe, very astringent when green; seeds 
large, compressed, often wanting. Fruit ripening late in the fall. 
Common in old fields and along roadsides 8. and S.W.* 
