xl GARDEN BOTANY. 



ions pinnatifid, lobes linear ; peduncles few-flowered ; petals small, pule pur 

 pie, with darker streaks. This and the two preceding are much mixed. 



P. myrrhifolium. Stems slender, herbaceous or nearly so, hairy 

 leaves once or twice pinnatifid, with narrow linear lobes ; peduncles few 

 flowered ; petals often only 4, white, the two upper obovate and with purple 

 veins, the two lower linear and much smaller. 



P. triste, SAD or NIGHT-SCKXTED 1 J . Stem succulent and very short 

 from a tuberous rootstock, or none; leaves pinnatcly decompound, hairy, the 

 lobes unequal ; umbel many-flowered ; petals dull brownish-yellow with darker 

 spots, sweet-scented at night. 



ORDER TROPJEOLACE.ZE. INDI AX-CRESS FAMILY. 



South American twining or straggling herbs, with the pungent ta.ste and smell 

 nf cresses, and showy, irregular flowers, with a spur to the calyx, all of the 



1. Tropseolum, commonly called NASTURTIUM, which is the botanical 

 name of the true Cress. 



T. majus, COMMON NASTURTIUM. Low annual; leaves rounded, an- 

 gled, peltate ; flowers yellow, varying towards red, the claws of three of the 

 petals fringed. 



T. peregrinum, CANARY-BIRD FLOWER. Annual, climbing high; 

 leaves deeply lobed and cut ; petals pale yellow, all cut-fringed. 



ORDER BALSAMINACE^E. BALSAM FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 73. Many varieties are common in gardens of the familiar 



1. Impatiens Balsamina, GARDEX BALSAM or TOCCH-ME-NOT. A 

 low annual, with succulent stems, crowded lanceolate leaves, and very showy 

 (white, red, or purple, mostly double) flowers hi their axils ; spur short. 



ORDER RITTACE.S3. RUE FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 74. Besides Ptelea, which is sometimes planted in grounds, the 

 following are cultivated, both very strong-scented plants. 



1. Rlita graveolens, KUE. A very strong-scented and acrid-bitter pcren 

 nial of country gardens, almost woody at the base, with decompound coarsely 

 punctate leaves, and oblong or obovate leaflets ; flowers pale yellow, cymose ; 

 petals 4, concave; stamens 8, short; pod globular, 4-lobed. 



2. Dictamnus Fraxinella, FRAX.INELLA, is a pleasantcr-scented percn 

 nial, with pinnate leaves, and a stout erect raceme of large, rather irregular 

 flowers; petals 5, either white or purple ; stamens 10; filaments long, de- 

 clined, glandular towards the summit; fruit of 5 compressed pods united with 

 each other in the axis. 



ORDER SIMARUBACE^I, which we may call Rutaccae without 

 dotted leaves, is represented by the cultivated 



1. Ailanthus glandulosus, TRKE-OF-UKAVKN. A shade tree of rapid 



growth, with large pinnate f^aves of many pairs of leaflets, and small, polyga- 

 mous or dio'cious, greenish flowers. Lobes of the calyx and the petals 5. 

 Stamens 10 in the staminate, 2 or X in some of the fertile flowers. I'istils 2 to 

 5, with somewhat lateral styles. Fruit a samara, much like that of Aslu 

 Stumiuate flowers of very unpleasant smell. 



