294 THE FLORA. 



A hfpochondri'acus. Prince's Feather. Smoothish. Leaves lance-oblong, some red- 

 dened. Spikes very obtuse, the terminal one much the longest. Flowers deep pur- 

 ple, 5-parted. Fields and gardens. 3-6f. From Mexico. 



A. panicula'tus. Pubescent, pale green or purplish. Leaves lance-ovate. Spikes slen- 

 der, acutish, numerous, all subequal, reddish green, or in the variety sanguineus^ 

 crimson. Bracts awn-pointed. Calyx 5-parted. Fields and gardens. 2-3f. 



Oeder CYII. THYAIELAOE^. Daphnads. 



Shrubs with a veiy tougli bark, entire leaves and perfect flowers ; 

 calyx colored, tubular, regular, 4-parted, bearing the 4-8 stamens ; 

 ova)'2/ free, forming a 1-celled, 1-seeded drupe in fruit. 



1. DIRCA. Leather-wood. 



Calj^x colored like a corolla, its limb obscurely 4-toothed. Stamens 8, 

 exserted. Style 1. Flowers opening before the leaves, 8 from each bud. 



D. palus'tris. Shrub 3-5f. high, along streams, with pendent, yellowish flowers in April 

 and May. Drupes small, oval, red. Lvs. oblong-obovate. 



2. DAPHNE. Daphne. 



Calyx colored, funnel-form, limb spreading, 4-parted. Stamens 8, not 

 exserted. Berry fleshy, 1-seeded. Exotics. 



1 D. Meze'reum is a shrub, 2-3f., with very smooth lanceolate leaves appearing later than 

 the side clusters of rose-purple, sweet-scented flowers.— Two or three other species 

 are found in the greenhouse. Europe. 



Order CXYII. JUGLA^^DACEiE. Walnuts. 



Trees with alternate, pinnate, exstipulate Im. and moncBclous flowers ; 

 sterile floicers in aments with an irregular perianth ; fertile, solitary, &c. ; 

 5 calyx regular, 3-5-lobed. Fruit a tryma (§ 172) with a fibrous epicarp 



{shuck) and a bony endocarp {shell) ; 

 seed large, with lobed, often sinuous, oily cotyledons. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



Sterile aments solitary, simple, Epicarp persistent on the tryma. Juslakb 1 



Sterile aments clustered, lateral. Epicarp 4-valved, separating. Cakta. 2 



