MONCECIA. 



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MONCECIA. 



ament cylindrical, below the males; calix a villose hair; 

 corolla none; seed one, placed on a capillary down. 



SPARGONIUM, Bur Reed Male and Female: ament round- 

 ish ; calix three-leaved ; corolla none. Female : stigma 

 bifid; drupe juiceless, one-seeded. 



ZEA, Maize or Indian Com Male flowers in distinct spikes ; 

 calix a two-flowered beardless glume; corolla beardless. 

 Female: calix a glume of two valves; corolla of 'four 

 valves; style one, thread-shaped, pendulous; seeds soli- 

 tary, imbedded in an oblong receptacle. 



Coix, Job's Tears Males in remote spikes; calix glume 

 two-flowered, awnless; corolla glume awnless ; stvle two- 

 parted ; seed covered by the calix, ossified. 



TRIPSACUM Male: calix glume two-flowered; corolla valves 

 roembranaceous. Female : calix glume with perforated 

 sinuses; corolla two-valved ; stigmas two; seed one. 



OLYRA Male : calix glume one-flowered, awned ; corolla 

 glume awnless, (Swartz says, no corolla.) Female : calix 

 glume one-flowered, spreading, ovate; style bifid; seed 

 cartilaginous. 



CAREX, Sedge Ament imbricate ; calix one-leafed ; corolla 

 none. Female: nectary inflated, th ree- toothed ; stigmas 

 three; seed three-sided, within the nectary. 



AXTRIS Male: calix three-parted ; corolla none. Female: 

 calix two-leaved; corolla none; styles two; seed one. 



TRAGIA Male: calix three-parted ; corolla none. Female: 

 calix five-parted ; corolla none; stigma trifid ; capsule tri- 

 coccous, three-celled ; seeds solitary. 



HERNANDIA, Jack-in-a-Box Male: calix deeply three- 

 cleft ; corolla of three petals. Female : calix truncated, 

 entire; corolla of six petals; drupe hollow, open at the 

 mouth, its coat unconnected with the nut. 



COMPTONIA Male: ament cylindric; calix two-leaved; co- 

 rolla none; anthers two-parted. Female: ament ovate; 

 calix six-leaved ; corolla none ; styles two; nut oval. 



ERIOCAULON. See Triandria Trigynia. 



KOBRESIA Male: calix, the inner scales of an imbricated 

 catkin, solitary ; corolla none. Female : calix, the outer 

 scales of the same catkin, sheathing, permanent; corolla 

 none; stigmas three; seed triangular, naked. 



SCLERIA Male : calix glume from two to six valved, many- 

 flowered, awnless; corolla glumes awnless; filaments one 

 to three. Female : calix from two to six valved, one- 

 flowered, awnless; stigmas one to three; seed, nut sub- 

 globular, somewhat bony, coloured. 



4. TETRANDRIA (Male Flowers with Four Stamens.) 



BETULA, Birch Tree Male: calix one-leafed, three-cleft, 

 three-flowered; corolla four-parted. Female: caiix one- 

 leafed, subtrifid, two-flowered ; seed with a winged mem- 

 brane on each side. 



Buxus, Box Tree Male: calix three-leaved; petals two; 

 the rudiment of a germen. Female : calix four-leaved ; 

 petals three; styles three; capsule three-beaked, three- 

 celled ; seeds two. 



URTICA, Nettle Male : calix four-leaved ; corolla none ; nec- 

 tary rudiment of a germen, central, cup-shaped. Female : 

 calix two-leaved ; corolla none ; seed one, superior, shining. 



MORUS, Mulberry TVee Male: calix four-parted; corolla 

 none. Female: calix four-leaved; corolla none; styles 

 two; calix becoming a berry; seed one. 



CICCA Male: calix four-leaved. Female: calix three- 

 leaved ; styles four ; capsule tetracoccous. 



SERPICULA Male: calix four-toothed; petals four. Fe- 

 male: calix in four deep segments; nut tomcntose. 



LITTORELLA, Plantain Shoreweed Male: calix four-leaved; 

 corolla four-cleft; stamens long. Female: calix none; 

 corolla slightly four-cleft ; styles long; seed a nut. 



ACUBA Male: calix four-toothed; corolla four-petalled ; 

 berry one -seeded. Female: nut one-celled. 



ALNUS. See Betula. 



ARGYTHAMNIA. Male: calix four-leaved; corolla four- 

 petalled. Female: calix five-leaved ; corolla none; styles 

 dichotomous ; capsule tricoccous, with solitary seeds. 



BOEHMERIA Male: calix four-parted ; corolla none. Fe- 

 male : calix none, but crowded scales between each ger- 

 men, obovate; style single; seed single, compressed. 



DIOTIS Male: calix four-leaved; corolla none. Female: 

 calix one-leafed, two-horned; style biparted; seed one, 

 villose, covered by the two-horned calix. 



EMPLEURUM Male: calix four-cleft ; corolla none; some- 

 times with the rudiment of a germen. Female: calix 

 four-cleft, inferior; corolla none; stigma cylindrical, 

 standing on a lateral tooth of the germen ; capsule beaked, 

 two-valved ; seed solitary, with an elastic aril. 



PACIIYSANDRA Calix about four-leaved; corolla none; 

 filaments subclavate; styles three; capsules three-horned, 

 three-celled ; cells two-seeded. 



TRICERA Male: calix four-parted ; corolla none; stamens 

 fleshy; filaments ovate. Female: calix five-leaved; co- 

 rolla none ; styles conical ; capsule three-horned, three- 

 celled, three-valved. 



5. PENTANDRIA (Male Flowers with Five Stamens.) 



XANTHIUM, Burweed Male: common calix imbricated; 

 florets of one petal, funnel-shaped, five-cleft ; receptacle 

 chaffy. Female : calix two-leaved, two-flowered ; corolla 

 none; drupe dry, muricated, cloven; nut of two cells. 



AMBROSIA Male: calix, common one-leafed; corolla one- 

 petalled, trifid, funnel-shaped ; receptacle naked. Female: 

 calix one-leafed, entire, the belly five-toothed, one-flowered ; 

 corolla none ; nut of the hardened calix, one-seeded. 



PARTHENIUM, Bastard Feverfew Male: calix, common 

 five-leaved ; corolla of the disk one-petalled. Female : 

 corolla of the ray five, on each side two males, with one 

 female between, superior. 



IVA Male : calix, common three or four leaved ; corolla of 

 the disk one-petalled, five-cleft; receptacle with hairs or 

 linear chaffs. Female: in the ray, five, or fewer; corolla 

 none; styles two, long ; seeds naked, blunt. 



AMAIIANTHUS, Amaranth Male: calix three or five leaved; 

 corolla none; stamens three or five. Female : calix three 

 or five leaved; corolla none; styles three; capsule one- 

 celled, opening horizontally; seed one. 



NEPHELIUM Male: calix five-toothed ; corolla none. Fe- 

 male : calix four-cleft ; corolla none ; germens two, with 

 two styles to each drupe ; or, as Gaertner says, capsules 

 two, muricated, one-seeded. 



CLIBA.DIUM Male: common calix imbricated; anthers of 

 the male florets approximating, not united. Female : com- 

 mon calix the same; corolla of the ray, female, three or 

 four; drupe umbilicated. 



BRYONIA, Briony Calix five-toothed ; corolla five-parted. 

 Male: filaments three. Female: styles quadrifid; berry 

 subglobular, many-seeded. 



CROTONOPSIS Male: calix five-parted; corolla of five pe- 

 tals. Female: calix five-parted; corolla none; stigmas 

 three, twice bifid; capsule one-seeded. 



FRANSERIA Male: common calix of one leaf, with many 

 teeth; corolla monopetalous, tubular, with five teeth; 



