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Order L. ARALIACEiE. (Aralia Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs with regular^ perfect, or polygamous 

 flowers^ the calyx-tube adnate to ovary, 4,-f>-dentate, the val- 

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

 large, epigynous disk / the stamens as many as petals, al 

 ternatmg with them, the ovary inferior, l-oo -celled, with 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. 



HEDERA, L. Ivy. 'Amshaq. 



Calyx-lobes 5, short. Petals 5. Stamens 5. Disk convex. Styles 

 connate in a cone, stigmas sessile at its apex. Ovary 5-celled. 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. CORXACEiE. (Cornel Family.) 



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

 ent to the l-4:-celled ovary, the petals 4-5, vallate in bud, and 

 (in ours) as many stamens inserted on the margin of an 

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

 from the top of the cell 'j the fruit a ^ -^-stoned drupe, with 

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

 tate. 



CORPUS, L. Cornel. Dogwood. 



Flowers perfect. Calyx 4-dentate. Petals 4, yalvate. 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 unibelled, with an involucre of 4 tracts, yellow. 



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

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

 preceding leaves, in few-Jiowered cymes; petals glat/rous outside ; drupe 

 ellipsoid, .013 long, .007 Iroad, crimson — Spring — Woods ; Bludan ; 

 middle zone of Amanus, and northward. 



* * Floicers cymose-corymbose, not involucrate, white. 



2. C. Australis, C. A. M. 5 ^ ^^ 3 or more; branches straight, 

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



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