DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 95 



within those on the side. Stamens 10 or fewer, distinct. 

 Seeds sometimes with endosperm. 



CER'CIS, Red-bud, Judas-tree 



A small tree or shrub, blooming before the leaves appear. 

 Leaves cordate to kidney-shaped, entire, palmately veined. 

 Flowers bright rose-color, in axillary clusters, numerous on the 

 leafless stems. Petals 5, the standard enclosed by the wings. 

 Pod large, flat and thin, turning purplish. 



C. occidentals Torr. This is the only native species on the 

 Pacific Coast. It is most beautiful along mountain streams through- 

 out California, but not near the seacoast. 



SUBORDER III. MIMO'SE^E 



Flowers regular, small, and numerous in spikes or heads. 

 Calyx and corolla of 4 or 5 divisions. Stamens as many or 

 twice as many as the petals, or numerous, inserted on the 



receptacle. 



ACA'CIA 



Flowers small, numerous in spikes or heads. Stamens very 

 numerous. Flowers usually yellow (rarely rose-color). 



Leaves various, naturally pinnately compound, but in many 

 Australian species reduced to a petiole flattened and broad- 

 ened like a leaf (phyllodia). On young plants the gradations 

 between the compound leaf and the simple phyllodia can 

 often be seen. 



GERANIA'CE^. GERANIUM FAMILY 



Herbs with pungent, acid, or aromatic juice. Sepals and 

 petals 5. Stamens 5 or 10. 



The fruit consists of 5 distinct carpels around a central 

 column, or is a 5-10-valved capsule splitting so as to shoot 

 out the seeds. 



I. GERA'NIUM, Crane's Bill 



Annual or perennial herbs with large joints and palmately 

 lobed leaves, stipules papery. Style 5-lobed at the summit. 



