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Order L. ARALiIACEiE. (Aralia Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs with regular^ perfect, or polygamous 

 flowers^ the calyx-tube adnate to o'oary, 4:-D-dentate, the val- 

 late, sessile petals 5-10, inserted by a broad base before a 

 large, epigynous disk j the stamens as many as petals^ al 

 ternating with them., the ovary inferior, l-oo -celled, loith 1, 

 anatropous ovule in each cell / styles as many as cells, dis- 

 tinct, or more or less connate ; fruit baccate, the endocarp 

 divided into crustaceous pyrenes / seeds pendulous, albumi- 

 nous. 



IIE!>ERA, L. Ivy. 'AmsJiaq. 



Calyx-lobes 5, short. Petals 5. Stameus 5. Disk conrex. Styles 

 connate in a cone, stigmas sessile at its apex. Ovary 5-ceUed. Berry 

 crowned with scars of calyx-lobes, 5-celled ; pyrenes ovoid-triquetrous ; 

 seeds solitary, ovate — A vine climbing over rocks and walls by root- 

 lets from the branches. 



H. Helix, L. 5 Leaves angled, 5-lobed, those of flowering- 

 branches entire, ovate-rhombic, acuminate, all green, glabrous, glossy. 

 Umbels panicled ; calyx-lobes triangular, short and broad ; fruit 

 .005 in diameter, top-shaped-globular, black — October to Febru- 

 ary — Common along coast, and in mountains to middle zone. 



Order LI. CORBfACE JE. (Cornel Family.) 



Shrubs or trees, with simple leaves, the calyx-tiibe adher- 

 ent to the \-^-celled ovary; the petals 4-5, valvate in bud, and 

 (in ours) as Tnany stamens inserted on the m^argin of an 

 epigynous dish / style 1 ; ovule 1, anatropous, hanging 

 from the top of the cell i the fruit a l-4:-stoned drupe, with 

 albuminous seeds — Calyx-margin 0, or truncate, or 4-5-den- 

 tate. 



CORXUS, L. Cornel. Dogwood. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx 4-dentate. Petals 4, valvate. Stamens 

 4. Disk cushion-like. Ovary 2-celled, stigma simple. Drupe ovoid 

 or oblong, 2-seeded,, with osseous or crustaceous pip — Shrubs or trees 

 with opposite leaves. 



* Flowers umhelled, with an invokicre of 4 h^acts, yellow. 



1. C. JMas, L. 5 3 to 5 or more; young branches appressed- 

 hairy, then glabrescent. Leaves ovate to lenticular, acuminate. Flowers 

 preceding leaves, in feic-flowered cymes; petals glairrous outside ; drupe 

 ellipsoid, .013 loyig, .007 broad, crimson — Spring — Woods ; Bludrm ; 

 middle zone of Amanus, and northward. 



* * Flowers cymose-corynibose, not involucrate, white. 



2. C, Au§trali§, C. A. M. 5 2 to 3 or more ; branches straight, 

 appressed-setulose. Leaves ovate-elliptical, obtuse to acuminate. 



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