416 SANTALACE.E. (sANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 



]\\i/t.) Shallow pine barren ponds, Florida, and northward. Feb. -March. 

 A large shrub, with numerous spreading forked branches. Leaves some- 

 what coriaceous, i'-l" long. 



6. CASSYTA, L. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx 6-cleft, persistent, the exterior lobes minute. Sta- 

 mens 12, in 4 rows, the inner row sterile: anthers 2-celled, the inner ones ex- 

 trorsu, the outer iiitrorse. Style very .short : stigma disk-like. Fruit enclosed 

 iu the fleshy persistent tube of the calyx. A leafless parasitic plaut, with 

 tuning filiform stems, and spiked flowers. 



1. C. filiformis, Miller. South Florida Spikes 2-4-flowered. 

 Calyx lobes thick, triangular, acute. Anthers oval, obtuse. 



ORDER 112. THYMELEACE^E. (MEZEREUM FAMILY.) 



Shrubs with acrid juice, tough bark, simple entire dotless leaves, 

 without stipules, and regular perfect flowers, with a tubular or bell- 

 shaped 4-5-cleft rarely entire calyx. Stamens commonly twice as 

 many as the calyx lobes, in '2 rows : anthers 2-celled, opening length- 

 wise. Stj'le simple : stigma capitate. Drupe with a single suspended 

 anatropous seed, containing little or no albumen. Cotyledons plano- 

 convex. Radicle superior. 



1. DIRCA, L. LEATHERWOOD. 



Calyx bell-shaped, entire, or obscurely 4-toothed. Stamens 8, unequal, ex- 

 serted. Style filiform. Albumen none. A low branching shrub, with alter- 

 nate petioled oblong or obovate deciduous leaves, and light yellow flowers, 

 from hairy buds, appearing before the leaves. 



1. D. palustris, L. Shady banks of streams, Florida, and northward. 

 Feb. -March. Shrub 2 -3 high, with pale spreading jointed branches. 

 Leaves 2' long, silky when young. Flowers three in a cluster, on short pedi- 

 cels. Drupe small, red. 



ORDER 113. SAXTALACEvE. (SANDALWOOD FAMILY.) 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees (ours root parasites), with simple entire ex- 

 stipulate leaves. Calyx tubular, 4 - 5-cleft, valvate in the bud, the 

 tube coherent with the ovary. Stamens 4-5, opposite the lobes, and 

 inserted on the fleshy disk at their base: anthers introrse, opening 

 lengthwise. Ovary 1-celled, with 1-4 anatropous ovules suspended 

 from the apex of the free central placenta. Style single. Fruit 1- 

 seeded. Embryo small, at the apex of copious albumen. Cotyledons 

 cylindrical. Radicle superior. -- Parasitic on the roots of various 

 trees or shrubs. 



