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THE FLORA. 



Order GUI. PHYTOLACCACE^. Pokeweeds. 



Uerhs or shrubs with alternate lemes^ no stipules^ andjlowerg racemed; 



sepals colored, 4 or 5 ; j^e^aZs none; stamens few or many; 



ovary of one or several carpels, which are united into a ring, forming a 



berry in fruit; cells as many as the carpels, each 1-seeded; 

 embryo curved around the fleshy albumen. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



Sepals 5, roundish. Sta. 5-20. Ovary 5-12-carpeled and seeded. Phytolao'oa. 1 

 Sepals 4, persistent. Stamens 4-12. Ovary 1-carpeled and 1-seeded. S. Eivi-'na. 



PHYTOLACCA. Poke. 



Character expressed in the 

 Analysis. — Tall and stout per- . U 



ennials, with greenish flowers ^i^ 



and purple berries. 



p. decan'dra. Plant 5-8f. high, _ 



very smooth, bushy. Leaves ''^^^^■*-^is>.;^i^^V_^ 

 large, ovate, acute at each end, l^i) ) 



petioled. Kacemes at first ...,._ -.,^S^'/ 



terminal, finally opposite to 

 the leaves. Berries oblate, of g^^jj/ 8^ 

 a rich dark purple. July-Sept. 

 Fig. 627. Phytolacca decandria, leaves, flowers, and fruit 



stamens and ovary. Fig. 630. Cross-section of the ovary. 1 



bryo coiled around the albumen. 



8. A flower, natural size. 

 A seed cut open, showing 



Oeder CV. CHENOPODIAOE^. Goose-foots. 



Herbs, mostly homely weeds, more or less fleshy, with alternate leaves ; 

 stipules none, scarious bracts nons. Flowers apetalous, small, greenish ; 

 stamens opposite the sepals or fewer in number than they ; 

 ovary 2-stylud, forming a 1-seeded utricle or caryopsis. 

 Embryo coiled or spiral iu Uie seed. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



§ Stem twining and climbing. Flowers in many racemes, wliite (d) 



§ Stems erect. Leaves none, or fleshy and terete, often spinescent (a) 



§ Stems erect. Leaves flat, neither fleshy nor spinescent. Flowers greenish .... (2) 



