SAPIXDACEJE. (j-OAP-BERRY FAMILY.) 



drupe tipped with the short and thick style. Shady banks, ami (the variety) 

 in pine-harren ponds, Florida to North Carolina, and westward. July. 

 Racemes 3' - 6' long. 



2. CLIFTONIA, Banks. TITI. 



Calyx minute, composed of 5 - S scale-like persistent sepals Petals 5 - S. 



ire. cnca\e. short clawed, spreading. Stamens mostly 10, in 2 rows : 



the tilameuts erect, thick, contracted above the middle; those '-'ppusite the 



petals longer : anthers round. Stigma sessile, 3 -4-lobed. Drupe dry, 3-4- 



- 4-celled. with a single linear seed in each cell. A shrub or small 



Leaves oblong, smooth, and somewhat glaucous. Racemes terminal, 



many-flowered, with leafy deciduous bracts. Drupes nodding. 



1- C. ligUStrina, Banks. (Myloeariuin, II" '. i Pine barren pun. Is 

 and swamps. Plurida and the lower districts of Georiria. westward. March - 

 April. Lea\ cs :T long. Racemes 2'-4' li>ng. Flowers white, fragrant. 



ORDKK 42. STAPHYLEACEJE. (BLADDER-NUT FAMILY). 



5, with opposite pinnate stipulate leaves, and perfect 

 regular pentaiulrous flowers. Calyx ."^-parted, colored. Petals and 

 stamen.- ">. j g is. < 'vary i' -Celled. Ovul- - 1 - ^ in each cell, 

 attached to the central angle of the cell. Fruit cap>ular or bac- 

 cate Si \s bony, truncated at the base. Embryo straight in sc 

 albumen. 



1. STAPHZLEA, L. BLAM-EK-NCT. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx erect. perirent. I'etal< o1x..vate. erect, alternate 

 with the - - imbricated in the bud. Stamens inserted with the petals 

 on the edge of the 5-lobed disk which fills the base of the calyx. < 'vary 3- 

 celled. the cells sometimes separate above, 6 - 8-ovnled. Capsule 3lnl,ed, 

 membranaceotis. inflated, few-seeded. Leaflets ^ipellate. Flowers white, 

 iii .rooping compound racen, - 



1. S. trifolia, L. Leaves trifoliolate : leaflets ovate, acuminate, serrate, 

 : beneath, the terminal one long-stalked : racemes lateral and termi- 

 nal: styles 3. ci.nnivent; capsule reticulated. 1 -3 seeded. Damp wi ....;.*. in 

 the upi>er districts. May. Shrub ICr high. Capsules 2' long, 1' in diameter. 



OP.DEP. 43. SAPIXDACE^E. fSn A p-BEnp.Y FAMILY.) 



Tr^es or shntbs. rarely herbs, with exstipulate alternate or opp<- - 

 leaves, and chiefly irregular 7 - 12-audrous flowers, imbricated in the 

 bud. Calyx 4- 5-lobed. Petals 4 - 12. inserted with the stamens ou 

 a hypogynous or somewhat perigynous disk, rarely none. Anthers 

 opening lengthwise. Ovary 2 -4-celled. the cells 1-2-ovuled. Seeds 

 without albumen. Embryo mostly curved or convolute. Cotyledons 

 incumbent, fleshv. 





