222 PARSLEY ORDER 



fruit an involucre with many bracts, a cup at the base or nearly enclosing 

 the 1 -seeded nut or acorn; flowers greenish, staminate many in drooping 

 catkins, pistillate solitary; leaves entire to pinnatifid, sometimes evergreen; 

 trees or shrubs. 



1. Scales of the acorn cup with long spreading 



tips; usually trees Q. macro car pa 



2. Scales not long and spreading; usually shrubs 



a. Leaves deciduous, deeply round-lobed, smooth 



to hairy 



(1) Acorns keg-shaped, about ^ covered by 



the cup Q. Gunnisoni 



(2) Acorns ovoid, about J/2 covered by the cup Q. Gambelii 



b. Leaves evergreen or somewhat so, sinuately 



toothed, the teeth sharp-pointed or spiny Q. unduldta 



APIALES PARSLEY ORDER 

 ARALIACEAE GINSENG FAMILY 



Sepals usually 5, united into a tube grown to the ovary, petals usually 

 5, white or greenish, separate, stamens 5, alternate with the petals, ovary 

 5-celled, styles 5, fruit a berry ; flowers mostly perfect, in umbels ; perennial 

 herbs with alternate leaves divided into three 3-5-pinnate parts. 



ARALIA Linne 1753 ARALIA, WILD SARSAPARILLA 



(Of uncertain origin and meaning) 



PL 35, fig. 1. 



Characters of the family. 



Stems short or none ; leaflets 3-5, 2-5 in. long ; umbels 

 usually 3 A. nudicaulis 



CORNACEAE DOGWOOD FAMILY 



Sepals 4, united into a calyx grown to the ovary, petals 4, white, green- 

 ish or purple, rarely wanting, stamens usually 4, ovary 2-celled, stigma 1, 

 fruit a drupe, 2-celled and 2-seeded; flowers in cymes or heads, the latter 

 margined with large petal-like bracts; shrubs or trees with whorled, oppo- 

 site or alternate, simple usually entire leaves. 



CORNUS Linne 1753 CORNEL, DOGWOOD 

 (Lat. cornus, dogwood) 



PI. 35, fig. 2-3. 

 Characters of the family. 



