14 ANALYTICAL KEY 



Leaves without stellate hairs ; embryo curved or 



coiled. 



Stipules scarious ILLECEBRACEAE, 376 



Stipules none. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Plant fleshy Salicornia, 369 



Not fleshy. 



Flowers in heads or spikes, these often 



panicled ; anthers 1-celled AMARANTHACEAE, 371 

 Flowers sessile in forks of branching 



inflorescence ILLECEBRACEAE, :>76 



Leaves alternate. 



Flowers and bracts scarious AMARANTHA* KAK. .">71 



Flowers small, chiefly greenish ; no scarious 



bracts CHENOPODIACEAE, 364 



/. Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves small, linear or scale-like ; low heath-like shrubs 



EMPETRACEAE, 551 



Leaves oblong to orbicular; never heath-like. 

 Leaves opposite. 



Fruit 3-celled, not winged RHAMNACEAE, 5M 



Fruit 2-celled, a double samara ACERACEAK. r>;>7 



Fruit 1-celled, a single samara OLEACEAE, 6.50 



Leaves alternate. 



Ovary 3-celled RHAMNACEAE, 500 



Ovary 1-2-celled. 



Styles and stigmas 2 URTICACEAE, 344 



Style and stigma 1. 



Anthers opening lengthwise THYMELAEACEAE. .">*'.) 



Anthers opening by uplifted lids LAURACEAK. -\\:\ 



d. Ovary inferior or so closely and permanently invested by the 



calyx as to appear so. 



Parasites on the branches of trees LORANTHACEAK, ."-"I 



Aquatic herbs HALORAGIDACEAE, 602 



Terrestrial. 



Herbs with calyx colored like a corolla. 



Leaves opposite, simple NYCTAGINACEAE, 375 



Leaves alternate, pinnate Smii/innnrba, 494 



Leaves alternate, simple Comandra, 350 



Shrubs or trees. 



Leaves scurfy ELAEAONACKAK, .v.m 



Leaves not scurfy, opposite \<'*tronia, 350 



Leaves not scurfy, alternate. 

 Style 1, stigmatic down one side; flowers solitary, in 



pairs, or in umbel-like clusters \IISMI, 111'". 



Style 1, short; stigma terminal ; flowers racemose I'l/rulur/n, :r>o 

 Styles 2 HAMAMELIDATI AI . }:>_' 



6. Ovary or its cells containm-- many ovules I. 

 I. Calyx mine: ovary and fruit naked. 



Aquatic herb PODOSTEMACEAE, 441 



Tn-e ,,r shrill) HAMAMELIDACEAE. 4.VJ 



/. Calyx present in. 

 ///. Ovary superior. 



