X SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES, ETC. 



Family 15. Hamamelidaceae (Page 142) 



Blowen perfect or unisexual; sepals 4, petals 5 (apetalous in 

 Liquidambar); ovary partly inferior; fruit a 2-celled woody capsule, 



dehiscent at the top; leaves alternate, simple, deciduous, with 

 stipules. 

 I iily 16. Eucommiaceae (Page 144) 



Flowers without perianth, dioecious; stamens 6-10 on short 

 Qlaments; carpels 1 hy abortion, with 2 stigmatic lobes at the apex; 

 fruit a samara. Leaves alternate, simple, deciduous, without 

 stipules. The leaves and other parts of the plant with elastic 

 threads. 



Family 17. Lauraceae (Page 145) 



Flowers perfect or unisexual, apetalous; fruit a drupe or berry; 

 leaves alternate, persistent (except Sassafras), with stipules. 



Family IS. Rosaceae (Page 163) 



Flowers perfect, sepals and petals 5; ovary inferior in Malm, 

 Sorbu8, Crataegus and Amelanchier; fruit usually a drupe or a pome; 

 leaves alternate, simple or compound, deciduous or persistent, with 

 6tipules. 



Family 19. Leguminoseae (Page 176) 



Flowers perfect, regular or papilionaceous; fruit a legume; 

 haves alternate, usually compound, deciduous or persistent, with 

 stipules. 



ORDER GERANIALES 



Flowers cyclic, with sepals and petals, or without petals, rarely 

 naked, mostly 5-merous; stamens coherent at the base; ovary superior; 

 carpels 5 2 (rarely more) whorled, usually separating from each other at 

 maturity, mostly with 2-1, rarely more, ovules; ovules pendent, anatro- 

 DOUS, with ventral raphae and the micropyle directed upwards. 



Family 2D. Rutaceae (Page 190) 



Flowers perfect, regular; fruit a fleshy drupe or berry, a capsule 

 <>r droplets. Leaves alternate, compound or simple, glandular 

 punctate, persistent, rarely deciduous. 



