LXXXvi LINNAEAN ARRANGEMENT. 



TAXODIUM. STAMINATE AMENTS numerous, in a terminal pyramidal 

 spike, or racemose cluster. Stamens few, the anther-cells covered 

 by a peltate scale-like connective. FERTILE AMENTS roundish-obovoid, 

 usually in pairs at the base of the staminate spike the carpellary 

 scales without bracts, acute, recurved-spreading at apex. Strobile 

 Bubglobose, the scales angular, subpeltate, scarcely opening. 

 Seeds angular. ORD. XCVIII. CONIFERAE. p. 294. 



THUJA. STAMINATE AMENTS ovoid, terminal, small. Stamens with 

 a scale-like connective, bearing 4 anther-cells. FERTILE AMENTS sub- 

 ovoid, tuberculate, terminal, small, the carpellary scales fixed by 

 the base, without bracts, dry and spreading at maturity. Seeds with 

 a narrow iving at each end. ORD. XCVIII. CONIFERAE. p. 293. 



PIIYLLANTHUS. Calyx 5- or 6-parted. Corolla none. Stamens mostly 

 3, with 5 or 6 glands at base. Ovary seated on a glandular disk, 

 8-celled ; cells 2-seeded ; styles 3. Capsule separating into 3 carpels. 

 ORD. XC. EUPHORBIACEAE. p. 261. 



ACALYPHA. STAMINATE FLOWERS very small, clustered in minute 

 pedunculate spikes, with the PISTILLATE FLOWER mostly at their 

 base, in an axillary leaf-like involucre. Calyx of the Stam. fl. 4- 

 parted, of the pistillate fl. 3-parted. Corolla none. Styles 3, fringed. 

 Capsule 3-lobed, separating into 3 globular carpels. ORD. XC. 

 EUPHORBIACEAE. p. 261. 



SICYOS. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla 5-parted. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-cjelled ; stigma thickish, trifid. Fruit compressed, ovate, 

 dry and membranous, 1-seeded, armed with barbed prickly bristles. 

 ORD. XL. CUCURBITACEAE, p. 93. 



CUCUMIS. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 5, nearly 

 distinct, and free. Fruit a fleshy 3- to 6-celled berry. Seeds 

 smooth, obovate-oblong, acute at base, and on the margin. ORD. 

 XL. CUCURBITACEAE. p. 92. 



CITRULLUS. Calyx tubular-campanulate, 5-parted. Petals 5, adnate 

 to the calyx. Fruit a subglobose smooth berry. Seeds obovate- 

 oblong, truncate at base, obtuse on the margin. ORD. XL. CUCUR- 



BITACEAE. p. 93. 



CUCURBITA. Corolla campanulate, the petals cohering with each 

 other, and adnate to the calyx. STAM. FL. Calyx campanulate, 

 with a short tube. PISTILL. FL. Calyx-tube obovoid, circumscissed 

 below the limb, after flowering. Fruit a fleshy, or subligneous 

 berry of various form. Seeds obovate, smooth, with the margin 

 scarcely tumid. ORD. XL. CUCURBITACEAE. p. 94. 



LAGENARIA. Calyx campanulate, or turbinate. Petals 5, obovate, 

 adnate to the calyx-tube. Fruit at first fleshy, finally a dry ligneous 

 berry. Seeds arillate, with tumid margin. ORD. XL. CUCURBITA- 

 CEAE. p. 92. 



