18. ACERACE.E. 19. GERANIACE.E. 7t5 



Styles 3 ; stain, united throughout their lower half in 3 sets, 

 a scale between each set ; pet. equal-sided. ELODES. 



12. H. elodes (L.) ; st. ascending round shaggy rooting below 

 I. roundish-ovate sessile pellucid-punctate shaggy, sep. ovate 

 bluntish glabrous fringed with shortly stalked (reddish) glands, 

 pet. ovate entire, styles nearly as long as the capsules. E. B. 

 109. E. palustris" R. vi. 342. St. prostrate below, then 

 ascending and leafy, 6 8 in. long. Fl. in terminal and axillary 

 few-flowered cymes, Spongy bogs. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



Order XVIII. ACERACEJE. 



Oal. 5-, rarely 5 9-parted, imbricate. Pet. the same number, 

 inserted round an hypogynous disk. Stam. generally 8, inserted 

 on the hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-celled. Style 1. 

 Stigmas 2. Fruit winged, separating into two indehiscent nuts 

 (samaras) each with 1 cell and 1 2 seeds. Embryo curved, 

 albumen 0. Trees with opposite leaves. Stip. 0. 



1. ACER. Fl. some imperfect. Calyx 5-parted. Pet. 5. 

 Stam. usually 8, longer in the male flowers. 



1. A'CER Linn. Maple. 



1. A. campes'tre (L.) ; 1. 5-lobed, lobes entirely or slightly 

 cut, corymbs erect, sep. and pet. linear hairy, wings of the fruit 

 horizontally diverging, ovary downy [var. hebecarpum DC., or 

 glabrous, var. leiocarpon Wallr.], stam. of the male flowers as long 

 us the corolla. E. B. 304. A small tree with corky fissured 

 baik. Woods and hedges. T. V. VI. Maple. E. S.? I. 



J2. A. Pseudo-plat' anus (L.) ; 1. 4-lobed, unequally serrate, 

 racemes pendulous, ovary downy with spreading wings, stam. of 

 the male flowers twice as long as the corolla. E. B. 303. R. 

 v. 1(54. A large handsome tree. In hedges and plantations 

 even in the North of Scotland. T. V. VI. Sycamore. E. S. I. 



Order XIX, GERAjSTACEJS. 



Sfcp. /5, persistent, imbricate. Pet. 5, clawed, twisted in the 

 bud. Stam. generally monadelphous, 2 or 3 times as many as 

 the petals, some often abortive. Fruit of 5 carpels cohering 

 round a long beaked axis, each terminated by an indurated style 

 which finally twists up, separating from the axis and carrying 

 with it the carpel. Seeds solitary, without albumen. Cotyle- 

 dons convolute, plaited. L. with stipules. 



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