GUIDE TO PLANT FAMILIES 

 REPRESENTED 



I. GYMNOSPERIVUE 



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'' Ovules naked upon a scale, bract, or disk. and Species 



Globose, formed by coalescence of fleshy scales. 



1 to 6 bony seeds. Pinace^ xxxii 



Cup-shaped fleshy disk nearly inclosing bony seed. 



Taxace^ .... xxxii 



II. ANGIOSPERMJE 



Pistil consists of closed ovary containing the ovules 

 and becoming the fruit. 



1. MONOCOTYLEDONES 



Stem vrithout central pith or annual layers, but v^ith 

 vascular bundles scattered through them. 

 Leaves are mostly parallel-veined. 

 Parts of flowers usually arranged in threes. 

 Embryo has but one cotyledon. 



Fruit a Berry 



Growing in close heads on fleshy stalks. 



Arace^ xxxii 



Woody or herbaceous vines. 



Smilace^ .... xxxiii 

 All others. Convallariace/E . . xxxii 



xxvi 



