PENTANDRIA. 



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PENTANDRIA. 



CORIANDRUM, Coriander Corolla rayed; petals inflex- 

 emarginate ; involucre universal one-leafed, partial halved ; 

 fruits spherical. 



SCANDIX, Chervil Florets of the disk most commonly 

 male; corolla radiate; petals emarginate; fruit awl- 

 shaped. 



CHAROPHYLLUM, Cow Weed and Chervil Involucre re- 

 flexed, concave; petal heart-shaped, indexed; fruit ob- 

 long, even. 



IMPERATORIA, Masterwort Fruit roundish, compressed, 

 gibbose in the middle, surrounded by the margin; petals 

 inflex-emarginate. 



SESELI, Meadow Saxifrage Umbels globular ; involucre of 

 one or two leaflets; fruit ovate, striated. 



7. Gymnodispermous, without any Involucre. 



THAPSIA Fruit oblong, surrounded by a membrane ; petals 

 uniform ; flowers all fertile. 



PASTINACA, Parsnep Fruit elliptical, compressed, flat; 

 petals involute, entire; involucre neither general nor 

 partial. 



SMYRNIUM, Alexanders Petals acuminate, keeled ; fruit 

 oblong, striated. 



AHETHUM, Dill and Fennel Fruit subovate, compressed, 

 striated ; petals involuted, entire. 



CARUM, Caraway Fruit ovate-oblong, striated ; iuvolucre 

 one-leafed; petals keeled, inflex-emarginate. 



PIMPINELLA, Burnet Saxifrage Petals bent in ; stigma sub- 

 globular ; fruit ovate-oblong. 



APIUM, Parsley Fruit ovate, striated ; involucre one-leafed ; 

 petals equal. 



./EGOPODIUM, Herb Gerard Fruit ovate-oblong, streaked. 



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AMSONIA Calix five-parted; corolla funnel-farm, orifice 

 closed; follicles two, erect; seed terete, naked, and ob- 

 liquely truncated. 



ANANTHERIX Calix and corolla five-parted, segments com- 

 . pressed, fistulous and impervious, incurved; stamens as 

 in Asclepias ; follicles two ; seeds comose. 



CORRIGIOLA, Bastard Knot-grass Calix five-leaved ; petals 

 five ; seed one, three-sided. 



CRAKTZIA Umbel simple; calix none; petals entire, 

 roundish, and obtuse; styles minute; stigmas obtuse; 

 fruit subglobose; seeds unequal in size, each with three 

 margined dorsal ribs, and four obtuse angled grooves ; 

 involucre about five-leaved. 



Diciiox'DRA Calix five-parted; segments spathulate; co- 

 rolla shortly-campanulate, five-parted; stigma peltate- 

 capitate; capsule subcompressed, two-celled, cells one- 

 seeded ; seed globose. 



ENSLENIA Calix small, five-parted, persistent ; corolla five- 

 parted, segments connivent, erect; style none; stigma 

 conic, subbilamcllate ; follicles two, small. 



ERIGENIA Calix none ; corolla uniform ; petals obovate, 

 spreading, entire ; styles persistent, subulate, very long; 

 fruit oval, somewhat laterally compressed ; seed gibbously 

 convex ; involucre none. 



ERIOCALIA Umbel simple; involucre of many lanceolate, 

 equal, coloured, woolly leaves, longer than the umbel ; 

 fruit compressed, hairy ; petals none. Many flowers 

 abortive. 



FALKIA Calix of one leaf, inferior; corolla of one petal, 

 plaited, funnel-shaped, with ten segments; seeds four, 

 naked. 



FERULA, Fennel-Giant Fruit oval, compressed, with three 

 ribs on each side ; calix obsolete ; general involucre deci- 

 duous ; flowers uniform, all fertile. 



FORGESIA Petals five, rough on their inside; capsule in- 

 ferior, of two cells and two valves, crowned by the styles. 



GELSEMIUM, Carolina Jesmine Calix five-leaved, very 

 small; corolla funnel-form, border spreading, five-lobed, 

 nearly equal; capsule compressed and flat, bipartile, bilo- 

 cular; seeds flat, attached to the margins of the valves. 



GLYCERIA Umbel simple; calix none; petals entire, ovate, 

 acute, incurved ; styles very short, subulate ; sligmas ob- 

 solete; fruit reniform, laterally compressed, flat and trun- 

 cate ; seed quinque-costate, covered with an indurated 

 bark; involucre two-leaved. 



GONOLOBUS Corolla rotate, five-parted ; nectary simple, 

 cylindric, subcarnose, five-lobed, depressed ; masses of 

 pollen five pair, even, transverse; follicles two; seed 

 comose. 



KOCIIIA Calix monophyllous, campanulate, five-cleft; in 

 fruiting, producing a dorsal margin in the form of five 

 petals; orifice closed with five triangular dentures; corolla 

 none ; style short ; stigmas two or three, long ; capsule 

 one-celled, one or two seeded ; seed incurved. 



MARSDENIA Corolla nearly wheel-shaped, five-cleft; crown 

 of the stamens of five compressed undivided leaves, with- 

 out teeth; anthers terminated by a membrane; masses of 

 pollen ten, smooth, erect; follicles smooth; seeds comose. 



PANAX, Gin-seng. See Polygamia Dicecia. 



PsYCiiOTRiAj Ipecacuanha Plant Calix five-toothed, crown- 

 ing; corolla tubular; berry globular; seeds two, hemi- 

 spherical, grooved. 



ROCHEFORTIA Calix inferior, five-parted; corolla one- 

 petalled, funnel-form, with the aperture open ; fruit two- 

 celled, many-seeded. 



STYLANDRA Calix five-parted, minute; corolla without 

 tube, five-parted; segments long, erect, and connivent; 

 nectary simple, five-parted ; tube reversed, very long, 

 supporting the parts of fructification; masses of pollen 

 pendulous, even; follicles two, long and slender; seeds 



comose. 



THASPIUM Fruit subeliptic; seeds convex, with five alated 

 ridges ; involucre none ; involucel about three-leaved, 

 unilateral. 



WENDIA General involucre none, partial obsolete; flowers 

 radiant; calix unequally toothed; fruit nearly orbicular, 

 compressed, notched, with three ribs, and four short in- 

 termediate stripes ; crowned with the styles, the base of 

 which is winged. 



WYLIA General and partial in volucral leaves ovate; flowers 

 polygamous, radiant ; calix five-toothed ; fruit oblong, 

 somewhat compressed, beaked ; valves of the beak parallel 

 to the fruit. 



XANTHOSIA Petals five, ovate, fruit ovate, striated, sepa- 

 rable into two parts ; involucre of two leaves, single- 

 flowered. 



XYSMALOBIUM Masses of pollen ten, smooth, pendulous; 

 crown simple, in ten deep segments, the intermediate ones 

 minute; corolla spreading; follicles shaggy. 



ZOSIMA General and partial involucre of many permanent 

 leaves ; corolla uniform, some flowers male ; calix tumid, 

 five-toothed ; petals nearly equal, obovate, indexed ; fruit 

 roundish-obovate, compressed, villous, with a corrugated 

 border, the disk ribbed. 



3. TRIGYNIA (Three Pistils.) 



RHUS, Sumach Calix five-parted ; petals five ; berry one- 

 seeded. 

 VIBURNUM, Laurustmus, Wayfaring Tree, and Water 



