160 DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS. 



celled, (by abortion 1-celled) crowned by a fleshy urceolate 

 disk ; style single, sometimes partly divided ; stigmas usually 

 2, rarely several. Fruit splitting into 2 cocci, or capsular, 

 or baccate, or drupaceous, 2 or many-celled. Seeds one or 

 many in each cell. Albumen copious, horny or fleshy ; em- 

 bryo straight or sligh'tly curved ; radicle turned to the hilum ; 

 cotyledons leafy. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple, entire, opposite, 

 rarely verticillate. 



iL' r HEDYOTIS. Linn. 



Calyx 4-toothed, or 4-parted. Corol tubular, bearded at 

 the throat, 4-parted. Stamens 4, somewhat exserted. Cap- 

 sule ovate, 2-celled, opening transversely at the top, maii)'- 

 seeded ; dissepiment contrary to the valves. ' 



Tetrandria. Monogynia. 



H. glomerata Ell. : stem procumbent, assurgent, pubescent ; leaves 

 opposite, lanceolate, attenuate at base, pubescent ; flowers in clusters, 

 sessile, axillary and terminal. //. auriculata Wait. Oldenlandia glome- 

 rata Mich. 



HAB. Damp grounds. N. J. to Car. Aug. ? Stem 1 3 

 inches high. Ftmcers white, minute, in clusters forming whorls. 



2. MITCHELLA. Linn. 



Flowers by pairs upon the same germ, superior. Calyx 4- 

 toothed. Corol funnel-form ; tube cylindric ; limb 4-parted, 

 spreading, villous on the inner side. Stamens 4, adnale to 

 the tube, scarcely exserted. Stigma 4-clcft. Berry by the 

 union of 2 germs, didymous, 4-seeded. 



Tetrandria. Monogynia. 



St. repens lAnn. : stem branched, smooth, creeping ; leaves opposite, 

 petioled, round or ovate, cordate at the base, smooth, very entire ; 

 flowers terminal, in pairs on each germ ; calyx minute. 



HAB. Woods, among dried leaves. Can. to Geor. June, July. 

 1C. A small, evergreen, creeping plant. Flowers white, hairy 

 within, fragrant. Berries red. Partridge Berry. 



3. CEPHALANTHUS. Linn. 



Common calyx none ; proper superior, small and angular, 

 4-cleft. Corol tubular, slender, 4-cleft. Style much exsert- 

 ed. Stigma globose. Capsule 2-celled, 2-secded, (mostly 2 

 partile.) Receptacle globose, hairy. Flowers in a globose 

 head. Tetrandria. Monogynia. 



