ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. 



<--(- Fertile stamens as many as the petals, or fewer, 



Ovaries more than one. 

 Trees, shrubs, or woody vines. 



Flowers dioecious. Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, punctate. RUTACEjE, G8 



Woody vines. Anthers 4-celled. Stamens separate. 



MENISPERMACE.E, 14 

 Anthers 2-celled. Stamens united, disk-like. 



SCHIZANDRE.E. 11 



Flowers perfect. Petals gland-like. Leaves pinnate. ZANTHORHIZA, 10 



Herbs. Leaves linear. Scape 1-flowered. Achenia spiked. MYOSURUS, 6 



Ovary solitary, 1-celled. 

 Leaves opposite or whorled. 



Sepals 2. Stem 2-leaved. Flowers racemose, purple. PORTULACACE.E, 38 



Sepals 5. Leaves punctate. Placentae parietal. Flowers yellow. 



HYPERICACE^;, 5* 

 Leaves not punctate. Placentae central. Flowers red or white. 



CARYOPHYLLACE.E, 39 

 Leaves alternate, stipulate. 



Leaves pinnately compound. Fruit a legume. LEGUMINOS^E, 93 



Leaves simple. Flowers irregular. Capsule many-seeded. VIOLACE^E, 32 



Flowers regular, clustered. Capsule 1-seeded. 



BYTTNERIACE.E, 53 

 Leaves alternate, exstipulate. 



Sepals '2. Stamens 6, diadelphous. Flowers irregular. FUMARIACE^, 21 



Sepals 4. Stamens 6. Flowers regular. Fruit silique-like. CAPPARIDACE^E, 31 

 Sepals 5. Stem a naked or 1-leaved scape. 



Scape 1-leaved, 1-flowered. Leaves smooth. PARNASSIACE^E, 148 



Scape naked. Flowers racemose. Leaves bristly, glandular. DROSERACEJJ, 19 

 Scape paniculately branched. Flowers in 1-sided spikes, blue. 



PLUMBAGINACE^E, 300 

 Sepals 5. Stem leafy. 



Flowers monoecious, the pistillate apetalous. EUPHORBIACE.E, 421 



Flowers perfect, irregular. Fruit spiny. Leaves entire. KRAMERIACEJ5, 92 



Flowers perfect, regular. Leaves large, biternate. Fruit follicular. 



CIMICIFUGEjE, 2 

 Flowers perfect, regular. Leaves small, entire. Outer sepals small 



and bract-like. CISTACE^, 35 



Sepals 6. Anthers opening by uplifted valves. BERBERIDACE^, 15 



Ovary solitary, 2- or more-celled. 

 Trees, shrubs, or woody vines. 

 Leaves opposite or whorled. 

 Flowers dioacious. 



Leaves pinnate. Fruit a samara. OLEACE^E, 351 



Leaves pinnate or lobed. Fruit a double samara. ACERINEjE, 85 



Leaves simple, club-shaped. Ovaries and fruit capitate. BATIDACEjE, 434 



Leaves simple, heath-like, 3 in a whorl. Sepals, petals, and stamens 2. 



EMPETRACE.E, 434 



Flowers perfect. Leaves simple, with pellucid dots, entire. HYPERICACE^E, 55 

 Leaves digitate. Stem climbing. VITACE^, 73 



Leaves alternate. 



Leaves pinnate. Flowers dioecious. Fruit a drupe. SIMARUBACE^E, 70 



Leaves trifoliolate. Flowers polygamous. Fruit a circular samara. PTELEA, 09 

 Leaves simple, evergreen. Flowers perfect. Fruit a 2-celled drupe. 



CYRILLACE.E, 83 

 Leaves simple, deciduous. Flowers monoecious. Fruit a 3-celled capsule. 



EUPHORBIACE.E, 421 

 Herbs. 

 Flowers irregular. Sepals 4, the lowest large and saccate, spurred. 



Capsule elastically dehiscent. BALSAMINACE.E, C7 



