DICOTYLEDONS. HYPER1CIN/E. 2?! 



Shrubs or Trees. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate. 



1. RHAMNUS. 

 Cal. urceolate, 4 5 -cleft. Berry 2 4-celIed, 2 4-seeded. 



1. Rh. catharticus, spines terminal, flowers 4 -cleft dioecious, 

 leaves ovate sharply serrated, p. 80. Dumfries. 



2. Rh. Frangula, unarmed, flowers perfect, leaves obovate 

 smooth entire, p. 81. IVbods. 



ORDER XLIX. CELASTRI1NLE. Br. 



CaL inferior, 4 5-parted, with an imbricate aestivation. Pe- 

 tals 4 5. Stamens as many, alternate with the petals, and 

 having a doubtfully perigynous insertion. Ovarium 2 4 -cell- 

 ed, I many-seeded; ovules erect, rarely pendulous. Style 

 1 4. Pericarp capsular or closed (baccate, drupaceous, or 

 winged). Seeds with an arillus in the capsular genera. JEwi- 

 Iryo in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 



Shrubs or Trees. Leaves simple (rarely compound), alternate, 

 or opposite. Stipules generally minute, sometimes absent. Br. 



1. EUONYMUS. 



CaL plane, 4 5-cleft. Caps, with 5 angles, 5 -celled, 5-valved. 

 Seeds covered by a coloured arillus. 



1. E. europceus, flowers mostly tetrandrous, peduncles compress- 

 ed, many-flowered, leaves ovato-Ianceolate on short footstalks, 

 branches smooth, p. 81. Hedges. 



2. ILEX. 



Cal. 4 5-toothed. Cor. rotate, 4 5-cleft. Stigmas 4, sessile. 



Drupe sphaerical. Nuts 4, 1 -seeded. (Some flowers without 



pistil.) 

 1. I. aquifolia, leaves ovate acute spinous. p. 57. Woods. 



SECT. III. Petals hypogynous* 



ORDER L. HYPERICI1XLE. Juss. 



CaL 4 5-parted. Pet. 4 5. Stam. indefinite, polyadelphous. 

 Anthers roundish. Ovary simple. Styles and Stigmas several. 

 Capsule dry or baccate, 1- or many-celled, many-valved* 

 Cells formed by the introflexed margins of the valves. Seeds 

 very numerous, minute, attached to parietal or axile placentas. 

 Embryo straight, without albumen. Cotyledons very short. 



Herbs or Shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers in opposite co- 

 rymbs, often terminal. Just. 





