ANALYTICAL KEY. 14c 



Leaves alternate; twining vines ; flowers funnelform, axillary Convolvnlaceae, 86 



Leaves alternate; flowers not axillary Hydrophyllaceae, 80 



Leaves alternate ; flowers in a head, with acerose bracts Gilia, 5, 78 



Style 2-cleft Hydrophyllaceae, 80 



Style 3-cleft, or stigmas 3 Folemoniaceae, 75 



Style 2; leaves simple or none. 



Flowers solitary in the axils of small leaves ) . 



Flowers clustered on filiform parasitic stems J U 



Flowers in naked cymose clusters; shrubs Hydrophyllaceae, 80 



* * * * Stamens fewer than the lobes of the slightly irregular corolla. 



Limoaella or Veronica in Scrophulariaceae, 93 



2. FLOWERS IRREGULAR. Stamens with anthers 4 in pairs or 2; style 1; 

 leaves opposite or none, except in some of the Scrophulariaceae. 



Ovary 1-celled; corolla curved; leafless root parasites Orobanchaceae, 96 



Ovary 2-celled .Scrophulariaceae, 89 



Ovary 4 parted, forming in fruit 4 seedlike nutlets Labiatae, 97 



Ovary 4-lobed; fruit splitting into 4 nutlets Verbenaceae, 102 



DIVISION 3. APETAlLE. 



A. Ovary inferior (calyx adherent) or apparently so. 



Leaves cordate; calyx 3-lobed; capsule 6-celled Aristolochiaceae, 104 



Leaves opposite; calyx salver-form; ovary 1-seeded Nyctaginaceae, 104 



Leaves opposite; calyx inconspicuous; corolla tubular Caprifoliaceae, 64 



B. Ovary superior (free from the calyx). 



* Herbs; leaves alternate. 



Petaloid calyx withering-persistent; akene 3-cornered or flat Folygonaceae, 105 



Petaloid sepals deciduous; carpels several Rantmculaceae, 16 



Sepals 4, green, deciduous; small pods 2-celled Cruciferae, 22 



Flowers asepalous in a spike, with a petaloid involucre Anemopsis, 106 



* * Herbs; leaves opposite, entire. 

 Capsule 1-celled; style and stigma 1; leaves fleshy. 



Stems prostrate; flowers in involucrate heads Nyctaginaceae, 104 



Stems erect; flowers axillary Olaux in Frimulaceae, 73 



Capsule 1-celled; style or stigmas, 3 or more Caryophyllaceae, 27 



Capsule 3-5-celled; flowers axillary MoUugo in Ficoideae, 63 



