208 ORDER 70. STYRACACE.E. 



4 I. Cassine Walt. Cassena Tea. Smooth ; Ivs. small (10 IS''), elliptical, obtuse, 



crenate, thick, shining; ped. about 3-flowered. Coastward, S. : common. 6 15f, 

 bushy. March, April. Was used as a tea by the Creek Indians. 



5 1* decidua Walt. Nearly smooth; Ivs. thin, 1 2', lance-oval, pointed, blunt-ser- 



iate; ped. short as the petioles, the $ clustered; seeds obtusely ribbed. S. 6 9f. 

 /3. urbana. Lvs. 23', oval, obtuse, tapering to the base. 111., and S. May. 



6 I. Amelancliier Curt. Leaves (variable) ovate, oblong to lanceolate, acute 01 



pointed, serrulate, thin, downy beneath ; ped. short as the petioles, $ clustered, ? 

 solitary ; drupe red. Hills and ints., N. Y. to S. Car. (Priuos ambigmis Ph.) 



p. monttcola. Lvs. large (3 5'), glabrous, the short ped. and cal. some downy. 



7 I. anibigua Chapm. Lvs. oval or elliptical, acute (scarcely pointed), serrulate or 



nearly entire, smoothish ; <j ped. much longer than the pet., clustered, ? short, soli- 

 tary. Wet grounds, S. 4 Sf. March, April. (Prinos ambiguus MX.) 



2. NEMOPANTHES, Kaf. Parts of the flower in 4's or 5's. Calyx 

 very small. Petals linear-oblong, shorter than the stamens. Stig. sessile. 

 Drupe globular, red, with 4, rarely 5, smooth, horny nutlets (seeds). *> 

 Lvs. entire, smooth, thin. Fls. white, small, on slender pedicels, $ ? 2 . 

 N. Canadensis DC. N. Eng. to Mich. Shrub 4 Of. Lvs. 2'. Ped. 912'. May, Jn. 



3. PRINOS, L. WINTER-BERRY. Fls. small, habitually 6-parted and 

 perfect, but often fruitless. Calyx 6-cleft. Cor. monopetalous, subrotate, 

 6-parted. Sta. fi (in the sterile flowers rarely fewer, in the fertile rarely 

 more)'. Berry 6-seeded, seeds with a smooth, cartilaginous testa. > 5 

 With alternate Ivs., small white fls., and red or black berries. (See Addenda.) 



% Leaves deciduous, thin. Berries red. (No. 3a, p. 446, and) Nos. 1 3 



Leaves evergreen, thick, shining. Berries black Nos. 4, 5 



1 P. verticillatiis L. Black Alder. Lvs. oblanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, mu- 



cronate-serrate, small ; pedicels shorter than the petioles ; berries scarlet, in close 

 bunches as if verucillate, all Winter. Low woods. 8f. Leaves 1 14-'. July. 



2 P. lauceolatus Ph. Lvs. lanceolate, long-acuminate, sharp-serrate, t'lab., 13' ; 



fls. subsessile, the sterile 3-androus ; berries large, red. Swamps, S. (Dr. J. Hale.) 



3 P.laevlgatus Ph. Leaves lanceolate, appressed-serrulate, glabrous, shining above, 



short-acuminate ; ped. longer than the pet., in 2's or 3's. Swamps, Can. to Va. If. Jn. 



4 P. glafoer L. Ink Berry. Lvs. coriaceous, cuueate-lanceolate, glabrous, serrate at 



the end ; ped. longer than the pet., 1-3-flowered. Swamps, Ms. to La. 3 4f. Jn.. Jl. 



5 P. coriaceus Ph. Lvs. thick, obovate, serrate at the end, glabrous, shining ; w fls. 



all solitary, on very short peduncles, 6-8-parted. Woods, S. 4 Gf. Lvs. 2'. May. 



ORDER LXXVI. STYRACACE^E. 



Trees or sliriibs with alternate, simple leaves, destitute of stipules. Flow- 

 ers or racemes solitary, axillary, bracteate. Calyx 5-, rarely 4-lobex* Corolla 

 5-, rarely 4- or 6-lobed, imbricated in bud. Stamens definite or GO, unequal 

 in length, usually cohering. Anthers innate, 2-cellcd. Ovaries adherent, 

 2-5-celled, the partitions sometimes hardly reaching the centre. Fruit 

 drupaceous, generally with but one fertile cell. Seed* 5 1. 



TRIBE I. SYMPLOCINE^E. Calyx 5-cleft. Anth. GC. iniite. globular. KIs. yellow.. . SYMPLOCOS. 1 

 TKIBK II. STYRACE^i. Calyx mostly truncate. Anthers 812, linear-oblong, dnate. 



Flowers white, a 5-psirted. Kruit wingless, 1 -seeded STYRAX. 2 



(i 4-purted. Fruit winged, 2- or 3-soeded H.U.KSIA. S 



