Sers I, PHANEROGAMOUS OR 
FLOWERING PLANTS. 
Plants bearing true flowers, that is, having stamens and pistils, and 
producing seeds which contain an embryo 
CLass I. DICOTYLEDONOUS OR EXOGENOUS 
PLANTS 
Stems consisting of a pith in the center, of bark on the outside, and 
these separated by one or more layers of fibro-vasal or woody tissue, 
which, when the stem lives from year to year, increases by the addition 
of new layers to the outside next the bark. Embryo usually with two 
Opposite cotyledons, or rarely with several in a whorl. 
Sunciass I. Thalamifiorae. 7 free from the calyx and from each other, wanting 
tw egueane Stamens hypogyno 
§ 1. Ovary apocarpous. 
. ae ANUNCULACEAE. ‘Seis 8 5. emg Sn earpels m. 
Il. MENISPERMACEAE. fowak — al; sepals and ‘oa ene in 2 series; 
stamens definite, opposite the petals; pein 1, 3 or 6. Trai plants or climbers. 
§ 2 oer peg deg <aceg 
I. polenta ga Sepals 2; petals 4; indefini ae men copious 
UCIFERAE. Sepals * mld - sd ome ‘ gprbonene agent Se only 2), of which 2 are 
Ty. 
longer yw the others; wheats 
V. CAPPARIDACEAE eek eee indefinite ; secs 2; albumen none. 
anthers cohering 
; pe 
VI. VioLacear. Supe, sie and stamens 5; conniving round 
the ovary; placentas 3; fruit a 3-valved reser with the placentas giao the middle 
valy 
. Brxacear. Petals as many as sepals or none; stamens indefinite; placentas 3 or 
VI. Pr OSPORACEAE. Sepals, petals and stamens isomerous, 5 each; anthers free, 
erect ; uicaus nae 2, along the middle of the valves of a woody capsule. 
§ 3. Ovary synearpous, 1-celled ; — ae and free; embryo curved 
round — 
merous, or 4 each; or the petals wanting; 
IX. Cary ii BE, Sepals pet 
stamens twi many, or as many and a the 
X. PorTuLacacesE. Sepals 2; petals 5; stamens as cate as petals and opposite to 
them, or indefinite. Succulent herbs. 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands. 1 
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