362 ORDER 57. PASSIFLORACE^E. 



longer than the potils; stain, longer than either; sty. hairy, 2-cleft ; fr. Smooth. 

 In rocky woods, N. II. and Mass, to Wise. N. to Hudson's Bay. Lvs. 9 to 18 X ' 

 diam., generally cleft half way to the middle. Fls. nodding, greenish. Fr. pur- 

 ple. May, Jn. (R. triflorum Bw. R. saxosuin Hook.) 



11 R. oxycanthoides L. St. cljtked with bristly prickks ; subaxillary spines 3, 

 often fewer, united at base; Ivs. 5-lobed, roundish, subcordate, eut-dentate; ped. 

 about 2-flowered, very short; col. tubs cylindric; sty. cleft half way ; fr. smooth. 

 Can., in roeky woods. Readily distinguished from No. 10 by its numerous 

 prickles, but some of its forms aro nearly destituta of them. Fr. bluish purple. 



12 R. rotundifolium MX. Subaxillary spines mostly solitary, short ; Ivs. round- 

 ish, smooth, 3 to 5-lobed. incisely crenate-dentate ; ped. smooth, 1 to 3-llowered ; 

 cal. cylindrical, smooth, segm. linear, finally reflexcd; ptt. tpatulate, unguiculate; 

 stam. and 2-parted sty. slender, much exserted, smooth; berries smooth. In 

 woods, N. II. to N. Car. and Mo. Shrub 3 to 4f high. Sts. with a whitish 

 bark, the young jr oft?n prickly. (R. Missourienso Nutt.) Lvs. 1 to 2' dianj., 

 mostly truncato at base, shining above. Petioles ciliate, 1 to 3' long. Petals 

 yellowish-white. Fr. purple, delicious, resembling the garden gooseberry. May. 



13 R. gracile MX. Pubescent; ft. scarcely prickly; subaxillary spines 1 to 3, 

 short, very slender; Ivs. roundish, 3-lohed ; pod. 1 to 2-flowered, long and slen- 

 der ; cal. tube much shorter than the linear, recurved segm. ; pet. very small ; fr. 

 smooth. Mts. of Tcnn. and Ala. Apr. Probably another variety of No. 12. 



14 R. Uva-crfspa L. ENGLISH, or GARDEN GOOSEBERRY. St. prickly; 

 Ivs. roundish, 3 t> 5-lobed, hairy beneath, on short, hairy petioles; ped. hairy, 

 \-ftowert-d; cal. campanulato; sty. and ova. hairy; fr. smooth or hairy, globous. 

 Gardens. Long cultivat d, until there are several hundred varieties, with red, 

 white, green, and amber fruit, often weighing an ounce or more each. Apr. ^ Eur. 



ORDER LVL TURNERACE^E. 



Herbs with simple, alternate, exstipulate leaves, with the solitary Flowers 5-me- 

 rous, the petals and stamens inserted on the throat of the calyx. Ovary free, 1-celled, 

 with 3 parietal placentae ; styles 3, distinct. Fruit a 3-valved capsule ; seeds albumin- 

 ous, strophiolato. 



Genera- 9, fpeciex CO, confined (with one exception) to tropica. America. Properties, tonic 

 and uronmlic. 



TUfiNERA, Plum. (In memory of Wm. Turner, M.D., author of 

 "A New Herbal ," London, 1551.) Calyx funnel-form ; petals convo- 

 lute in restivation, longer than the imbricated sepals; styles 3; stigmas 

 flabcllate, many cL-ft ; capsule dehiscing to the, middle. Fls. showy, 

 yellow. 



T. cistoides L. Plant hirsute, erect; fK in the upper axils and terminal ; ped. 

 bractless, but j ,-intod near the middle; Ivs. lanceolate, obtusely serrate or entire, 

 subsessiie. obtuse, tlio lower oblong-oval. 1( Ga. from Savannah, along the rail- 

 road, westward (i-ea_>, Pond), and Fla. Sts. 12 to 18' high, simple or branched 

 from the base. Lvs. 1 to 2 long. Fls. in a leafy, terminal rao. Ped. 9 ' long. 

 Fls. dimorphous (some with the stam. longer, others with the pistils loneer). Cor. 

 1' diam., dei'p yellow. Caps, globular, downy. Sds. obovate, sculptured, the 

 membranous curunelo lateral. Ju. Sept. 



OUDEH LVII. PASSIFLORACEyE. PASSIONWORTS. 



Plants herbaceous or f hrubby, usually climbing, with alternate Ivs. and foliaceous 

 tipules. Fls. axillary or terminal, perfect, ofttn with a 3-leaved involucre. Sepait 

 4 to 5, united below into a tube, the sides and throat of which are crowned with 

 circles of filamentous processes, which appear to be metamorphosed petals. Petals 

 5, arising from tho t.iroat of the calyx, outside the crown. Stamens 5, mouodel- 



