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grooved, stif^mas 3 ; ovary 3-lobe(l, S-celled, with 8 ovules in each cell. Fruit a thick- 

 walled capsule tardily splitting into 3 valves. Seeds globular, ^' diani., purple 

 brown. 

 « » * Leaves opposite, of 5-9 digitate leaflets. Pod leathery, not inflated. 



4. JESCULUS. Trees or shrubs. Calyx 5-lobed or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, more or less 



unequal, on claws inclosed in the calyx, not appendaged. Stamens 7, rarely 6 or 8 : 

 filaments sleuder, often unequal. Style single, as also the minute stigma ; ovary 3- 

 celled, with a pair of ovules in each cell. Flowers in a terminal crowded panicle, in 

 late spring, or summer. Fruit a leathery pod, splitting at maturity into 3 valves, 

 • ripening 1-3 very large, chestnut-like, Iiard-coated seeds. (Lessons, p. 19, and Figs. 

 38, 39.) 



II. MAPLE SUBFiVMILY. Flowers generally polyga- 

 mous or dioecious, and sometimes apetalous, a mostly 2-lobed 

 and 2-celled ovary, with a pair of ovules in each cell, ripening 

 a single seed in each cell of the winged fruit. Embryo with 

 long and thin cotyledons, coiled or crumpled. (Lessons, p. 15, 

 Figs. 11-13, etc.) Leaves opposite; no stipules. 



5. ACER. Trees or shrubs, with palmately-lobed or even parted leaves. Calyx mostly 



5-cleft. Petals as many or none, and stamens 8-S or rarely more, borne on the edge 

 of the disk. Styles or stigmas 2, slender. Fruit a pair of samaras or kcy-frults, 

 united at the base or inner face and winged from tlie back. Occasionally the ovary is 

 3-celled and the fruit 3-winged. 



6. NEGUNDO. Trees, with pinnate leaves of 3-5 leaflets, and dicecious, very small flowers, 



without petals or disk ; the calyx minute ; stamens 4 or 5. Fruit, etc., of Acer. 



III. BLADDER NUT SUBFAMILY. Flowers perfect 

 and regular ; stamens as many as the petals ; several bony 

 seeds with a straight embryo in scanty albumen, and opposite, 

 compound leaves both stipulate and stipellate. 



7. STAPH YLEA. Erect sep.ils, i)etals, and stamens 5; the latter borne on the margin of 



a fleshy disk which lines the bottom of the calyx. Styles 2-3, slender, separate or 

 lightly cohering; ovary strongly 2-3-lobed, in fruit becoming a bladdery 2-3-lobed, 

 2-3-celled, and several-seeded, large, bladdery pod. Shrubs, with [jinnately compound 



leaves of;l-T Icallots. 



1. CARDIOSPERMUM, BALLOON VINE, HEARTSEED. (Tlie 

 latter i.s a tran.slation of the Greek name.) 



C. Halicacabum, Linn. A delicate, clinibins lierh. or .sjn-eadins: ; 

 flowers .small, white, in summer. Wild in S. W. .States, and cult, for the 

 inflated pods. 



2. KCBLREUTERIA. (Named for 7ra'//-p?<?cr, a German botanist.) 



K. paniculata. Laxni. Leaves of numerous thin and coarsely toothed or 

 cut leaflets, and a jiauiclt! of .small yellow flowers (in .sunnner) terminal, 

 amply branched. China. 



3. XANTHOCIJRAS. (Greek: »/r//o!P /(orw ; the disk-horned.) 



X. sorbi folia, V,\\\vj,c. Leaves lar.Lce, leaflets 11-21 ovate-lanceolate, 

 coar.sely serrate ; flowers (1' broad) in dense, raceme-like clu.sters ; petals 

 crumpled, white, marked with yellow, changing to purple. China. 



