350 CLASS VI. ORDER I. 



Southern. 



ARETHU'SA. Fruit ovate, sub-solid, having bark ; ribs acute and turgid, in- 

 tervals acute-angled ; joining sides flat, striate ; involucrum 1-sided, or none. 

 45. 60 (fools' parsley). 



ORDER III. TRIGVNIA. 



A. Flowers superior. 



VIBUR"NUM. Calyx 5-parted or 5-toothed, small ; corolla bell-form, 5-cleft, 

 with spreading or reflexed lobes ; stigmas almost sessile : berry or drupe 1- 

 eeeded. 43. 58 (snowball, sheep-berry, high cranberry). S. 



SAMBU'CUS. Calyx 5-parted or 5-cleft, small ; corolla sub-urceolate, 5-cleft ; 

 stigma minute, sessile : berry globose, 1-celled, 3-seeded. 43. 58 (elder). A*. 



B. Flowers inferior. 



RHUS. Calyx 5-parted, ; petals 5 ; berry 1-seeded, small, sub-globular. 43. 

 94 (sumach, poison-ivy), o. 



STAPHYLE'A. Calyx 5-parted, coloured ; petals 5 on the margin of a glan- 

 dular 5-angled disk ; capsules inflated, connate ; nuts globular, having a cica- 

 trice, 1 or 2 remaining in each capsule, though several appear a* rudiments 

 while in bloom. 23. 95 (bladder nut). S. 



ORDER IV. TETRAGYMA. 



PARNAS"SIA. Calyx inferior, permanent, 5-parted ; corolla 5-petalled ; nec- 

 taries 5-fringed, with stamen-like divisions ; globular tips ; stigmas sessile ; cajv- 

 ule 4-valved, 1 or 2-celled ; seed membranaceous margined. 14. 64 (par- 

 nassus grass, flowering plantain). S. 



ORDER V. PEXTAOYMA. 



ARA'LIA. Umbellets involucred ; perianth 5-toothed, superior ; petals 5 ; 

 stigmas sessile, sub-globose ; berry crowned, 5-celled ; cells 1-seeded. 46. J9 

 (spikenard, wild sarsaparilla). S. 



LI'NUM. Calyx 5-leaved or 5-parted, permanent ; corolla 5-petalled, inferi- 

 or, with claws ; capsule 5 or 10-valved, 10 celled ; seeds solitary, ovate, com- 

 pressed ; filaments spreading or united at the base- 14. 73 (flax). S. 



OKDCR VI. HF.XAKYNIA. 



DROS"ERA. Calyx inferior, deeply "-< 1. ft, permanent ; petals 5, marcescent ; 

 anthers ad nate ; styles 6, or one deeply divided ; capsule round, 1 or 3-<-flli'd, 

 muny seeded; valves equalling th- number of stigmas. 20. 68 (sundew . 

 The leaves of all the species are beset with glandular hairs resembling dew. N. 



OXDKR XIII. I'tJl Yl.Y.MA. 



ZANTHORHI'ZA. Calyx ; petals 5 ; nectaries 5, pedicelled ; capsule half 

 2-valved, 1-seeded, about 5 in number. 26. 61 (yellow root;. .S. 



CLASS VI. HEXANDRIA. 



ORDER I. MONOGVNIA. 



A. Flowers having a perianth and corolla, without a spalha. 



TRADESCAN"TIA. Calyx inferior, 3-1. nv( d ; corolla 3-petallod ; filament* 

 with jointed beards ; capsules 3-celled, many seeded. 6. 13 (.spider-unit . N. 



BER"BKRIS. MAHONIA. Calyx inferior, 6-leaved ; petals C, fnthSclaodf 

 at the claw of each ; style ; berry 1-celled, 2 or 4-seeded (stigma umbilicate ; 

 Btaiiu-ns spring up on being irritated). 54. 78 (barberry.'* S. 



CLEO'ME. Calyx 4-leaved, inferior ; petals 4, ascending to one side ; glands 

 3, one at each sinuate division of the calyx except the lowest ; stamens from 

 6 to 20, or more ; capsule stiped or sessile, silique-like, often 1-celled, 2-valved. 

 Does not belong to the class Tetradynamia by its natural or artificial charac- 

 ters. It has no sttuiue, though the capsule appears like a silique, until it is 

 opened. 25. 64 (false mustard). 



B. Flowers having a spatha or glume, without aperiantlt. 



AMARYL"MS. Corolla superior, 6-petalled, unequal ; filaments unequal in 

 proportion or direction, declined, inserted in the throat of the tube. 9. 17 

 (atamask lily). S. 



AL"L,IUM. Spatha many -flowered ; corolla inferior, G^arted, very deeply 



