96 LINACEAE. 



Order OERANIALES. 



Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate or opposite: blades simple 

 or compound. Flowers perfect, monoecious, or dioecious, mostly regular. 

 Calyx of distinct sepals. Corolla of distinct or nearly distinct petals, or 

 rarely wanting. Androecium of as many stamens as there are sepals or 

 twice as many, or rarely more. Gynoeciura of 2 or several united carpel.-. 

 Ovary superior. Fruit various. 



Plants destitute of secreting glands or cells In the tissues. 

 Sepals without dorsal glands. 



Leaves simple: stamens 5. I'M in. 1. LINACEAE. 



Leaves compound : stamens 10-15. Kara. 2. OXAMDACEAE. 



Sepals bearing 1 or 2 dorsal glands. ram . :i. M.U.IMI.HIACEA*. 



Plants with secreting glands, these often In the leaves, or 



only In the bark. 

 Filaments distinct, nearly or quite to the base. 



Leaf-blades punctate by oil-glands. I '.mi 



Leaf-blades not punctate. 



Oynoeclum of distinct carpels. Pam. 5. SCRIANACEAE. 



Gynoeclum of more or less united carpels. 



Bitter-barked shrubs or trees with oil-sacs In 



the bark. Fam. 6. SIMABOCBACEAB. 



Reslnlferous shrubs or trees. Fam. 7. BI-RSEBACEAE. 



Filaments united Into a cup or tube, wholly or In part. Fain, v MM i \< i M 



FAMILY 1. LINACEAE. FLAX FAMILY. 



Herbs or woody plants. Leaves alternate or opposite : blades simple. 

 Flowers perfect, regular. Calyx of 4-6 deciduous or persistent sepals. 

 Corolla of 4-6 ephemeral petals. Receptacle glandular. Androecium of 46 

 stamens, often with staminodia: filaments united at the base. Gynoecium 

 of 2-5 partially united carpels, the styles wholly or partially distinct. 

 Fruit capsular. 



1. CATHABTOLINUM Reichenb. Herbs. Leaves alternate or occasionally 

 opposite, Hometimes with Btipular glands. Sepals 5, the inner ones at l.-i-t \\ith 

 gland-tipped teeth. Petals yellow, sometimes pubescent within near the base. 

 Androecium of 5 stamens, generally without Rtaminodia. Styles ."., distinct or 

 united. Capsule 5-eelled, or completely or incompletely 10-celled by false parti- 

 tions. FLAX. YELLOW-FLAX. 



Styles distinct: corolla less than 1 cm. wide: capsules spheroidal. 



Stnmlnixlln wanting: stlpular glands wanting. 1 '' ',,rtlnttt. 



Stamlnoldla present, tooth-like : stlpular glands present. 2. 0. armlcota. 



Styles united: corolla over 2 cm. wide: capsule ovoid. 3. C. On/, il 



1. O. Curtissil Small. Steins 2-6.5 dm. tall, corymbose above: leaves mainly 

 alternate, ascending or erect; blades oblong-spatulate to oblanceolate or 1m. a r 

 above, 0.5-1.5 cm. long: outer sepals ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long: capsules sphe- 

 roidal, 2.5 mm. broad. Everglades and low pinelands. (Bah,) 



2. 0. arenlcola Small. Stems 2-7 dm. tall, corymbose above: leaves alternate, 

 erect or ascending; blades subulate or subulate-acicular, mostly less than 1 

 cm. long: outer sepals broadly oblong to oblong-ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long: cap- 

 sules spheroidal, about 2 mm. broad. Low pinelands. F. K. 



3. 0. Carter! Small. Stems 1-3 dm. tall: leaf -blades narrowly linear to linear- 

 subulate, mostly 1-2.5 cm. long: outer sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 4.5-5 mm. long: capsules about 4 mm. long. Pinelan<K 



