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pubescent ; seeds oblong, smooth — All the year — Waste places and 

 roadsides ; everywhere. The inspissated juice is an exceedingly drastic 

 and irritating, officinal cathartic. 



5. BRYOJVIA, L. Bryony. 



Flowers racemed or clustered, the pistillate rarely solitary. Corol- 

 la campanulate, 5-parted. Staminate Jl. : — Stamens 5, triadelphous, 

 with linear cells. Pistillate Ji. : — Style 3-fid; fruit baccate, spherical, 

 indehiscent — Perennial, climbing herbs (ours dioecious), with fleshy 

 tuberous root, and usually simple tendrils. 



B. multiflora, Boiss. et Held. 2f Leaves scabrous, cordate- 

 ovate, 8-9-palmatilobed or parted, segments often lobulated, sometimes 

 entire, repand-dentate or obsoletely lobed. Fertile flowers in many- 

 flowered, peduncled racemes, sometimes branching at base, sometimes 

 few-flowered ; calyx shorter than corolla ; style somewhat exserted ; 

 berry yellow or scarlet .008 to .01 in diameter — June — Thickets; 

 common. 



Var. paueiflora, Post. Flowers solitary, or 2-few in racemes 

 (B. Syriaca, Boiss). The author has in his herbarium numerous forms 

 intermediate between this variety and B. multiflora. In several the 

 lower leaves are obsoletely lobed, and the upper lobed, and more or less 

 lobulated. 



Order XLVL BATISCACE^E, Endl. (Datisca Family.) 

 Trees, or {ours) herhs, with regular, dioecious flovjers y 

 calyx adherent to ] -celled ovary / petals 0, or small, 8 ; sta- 

 mens inserted on calyx, opposite to its lohes ; placentce parie- 

 tal / ovules numerous, anatropous / styles as many as placen- 

 tae — Calyx-lobes equal or unequal. Stamens varying in num- 

 ber. Ov^ary open or closed at apex. Seeds numerous, minute, 

 with little albumen. 



BATISCA, L. Datisca. 



Petals 0. Staminate fi. : — Calyx-tube short, with 4-9, unequal 

 lobes. Stamens 9-11, anthers sessile, linear, elongated. Fertile fl.: — 

 Calyx ovoid, triangular, 3-toothed at apex. Styles 3, filiform, 2-i3arted, 

 divisions papillary along their inner aspect. Capsule 3-4-ribbed, oblong, 

 apex open between styles — Herbs with aspect of Cannabis. 



B. cannabina, L. If 1 or more, glabrous, erect. Leaves im- 

 paripinnate, leaflets lanceolate, acuminate, coarse-serrate, the termi- 

 nal often trisect, decurrent at base. Flowers in long, axillary racemes 

 intermixed with linear, nearly entire leaves ; capsules pedicelled, pen- 

 dulous — Summer — Moist places ; Lebanon to Marash, and northward. 



Order XLVH. CACTACE^E, D.C. (Cactus Family.) 



I^'leshy, usually leafless plants, with glohular^ columnar 

 a/ad many-angled, or flattened and jointed stems, ustially 

 ivith prickles. Flowers solitary, sessile ; sepals adherent to 

 the 1-celled ovary ^ numerous ^ imbricated in several rows. 



