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GOODENIACEAE. 



1. SCAEVOLA L. 



Fleshy, stout herbs or shrubs, with alternate or rarely opposite, mostly entire 

 leaves, the flowers irregular, axillary, in dichotomous cymes or rarely solitary. 

 Calyx 5-lobed, or a mere border. Corolla white or blue, its lobes winged, its 

 tube split to the base on one side, villous within. Stamens 5, free, epigynous; 

 filaments distinct. Ovary inferior or nearly so, 2-celled or rarely 1-celled; 

 stigma surrounded by a ciliate indusium. Ovules 1 in each cavity, or 2 in 1- 

 celled ovaries, erect. Berry with a fleshy exocarp and a bony or woody endo- 

 earp. [Latin, referring ta the irregular flowers.] About 60 species, mostly 



Australian, the following typical. 



1. Scaevola Plumieri (L.) 

 Yahl. Beach Lobelia. Ink- 

 berry. (Fig. 409.) Perennial, 

 nearly glabrous, more or less 

 shrubby, 2°-5° high, much 

 branched and straggling. Leaves 

 alternate, obovate, l^'-S' long, en- 

 tire, shining, narrowed into very 

 short winged petioles, or nearly 

 sessile, with a tuft of silky hairs 

 in each axil; peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves; calyx-lobes much 

 broader than long, rounded; 

 corolla glabrous without, about 

 1' long, the tube woolly within, 

 split on one side to the base, the 

 lobes oblong-linear, with broad 

 crisped wings; stamens nearly as 

 long as the corolla-tube, hanging 

 through the cleft; berry oval, 

 black, juicy, 2-seeded, 5"-8" long. 

 [Lobelia Plumieri L. ; Scaevola Lobelia of Verrill.] 



Common on sea beaches. Native. Florida and the West Indies. Flowers 

 from spring to autumn. Doubtless reached Bermuda by floating. 



Family 4. CICHORIACEAE Reichenb. 



Chicory Family, 



Herbs (two Pacific Island g-enera trees), almost always with milky, 

 acrid or bitter juice, alternate or basal leaves, and yellow, rarely pink, blue, 

 purple, or w^hite flowers in involucrate heads (anthodia). Bracts of the 

 involucre in 1 to several series. Receptacle of the head flat or flattisb, 

 naked, scaly (paleaceous), smooth, pitted, or honeycombed. Flowers all 

 alike (heads homog-amous), perfect. Calyx-tube completely adnate to the 

 ovary, its limb (pappus) of scales, or simple or plumose bristles, or both, 

 or wanting. Corolla gamopetalous, with a short or long tube, and a 

 strap-shaped (liguTate) usually 5-toothed limb (ray). Anthers connate 

 into a tube around the style, the sacs sagittate or auricled at the base, not 

 tailed, usually appendaged at the summit, the simple pollen-grains usually 

 12-sided. Ovary 1-celled; ovule 1, anatropous; style A^erj^ slender, 2-cieft, 

 or 2-lobed, the lobes minutely papillose. Fruit an achene. Seed erect; 

 endosperm none; radicle narrower than the cotyledons. About 70 genera 

 and 1500 species, of wide geographic distribution. The family is also 

 known as Liguliflorae. 



