Ir No. 313 



Plants with Obvious Petals, or if These are 

 Lacking, the Petal-like Sepals Colored and 

 Showy. Petals Separate, not United to Form a 

 Tube, and the Flowers Symmetrical, Never Pea- 

 like, or Violet-like, or Spurred. Flowers not Ar- 

 ranged as in the Carrot Family, See No. 526. 

 (Nos. 314-525-) 

 There are about 170 different kinds of wild flowers in this 

 group, often of distant relationship. They all agree in having 

 symmetrical flowers, of essentially separate petals which are 

 either conspicuous and showy, or are replaced by sepals that 

 give color to the flower. There is no sort of a tubular or cup- 

 shaped corolla, nor are any of them irregular, as are the peas, 

 violets, milkworts, or the spurred flowers of the columbine. 

 All these irregular flowered herbs will be found under No. 



556. 



The main divisions of this group are as follows : 

 Leaves insect catching, either like a bent pitcher, or if not so, 



covered with glistening hairs 



Pitcher Plant and Sundew no. 488 



Leaves, if present, not insect catching, usually normal 

 Leaves wanting, the green leaf -like joints swollen and prickly 



Prickly Pear no. 484 



Leaves wanting, the plants not green 



Indian Pipe and Pine Sap no. 485 



Leaves present, but reduced to small opposite scales, the 



plant thus appearing leafless Orange-Grass no. 483 



Leaves present, not reduced to scales 

 Leaves exclusively basal, or with only i or 2 stem leaves, 



rarely more (See Nos. 524 and 525) no. 492 



Some or all the leaves on the stem at flowering time, basal 

 leaves sometimes present 



Leaves opposite or with more than 2 at each joint 



no. 410 



Leaves alternate no. 314 



314. Leaves alternate. (Nos. 315-409.) 



There are several exceptions to be noted : Wall Pepper, 

 No. 332 has tiny crowded leaves ; Wild Stonecrop, No. 317, 



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