720 FLORA. 



pedicelled or sessile flowers, in dense terminal glomerate heads, subtended by 

 scarious bracts and bractlets, the lower bracts forming a kind of involucre to the 

 head, the two lowest reflexed and more or less united into a sheath. Calyx 10- 

 ribbed, 5 -toothed, oblique at the base or decurrent on the pedicel, scarious. Styles 

 united at the base, pubescent bejow the middle. Utricle 5 -pointed at the summit, 

 rarely dehiscent. [Greek, standing. ] About 20 species. The following is the only 

 one native in N. Am. 



i. Statice Armeria L. THRIFT. SEA PINK. LADIES' CUSHION. (I. F. f. 

 2828.) Scape 1-4.5 dm. high- Leaves narrowly linear, obscurely i -nerved,, 

 entire, 2-8 cm. long; bracts obtuse; head of flowers 1-2.5 cm. in diameter; co- 

 rolla pink, purple or white, 4-6 mm. broad; petals obtuse or cuspidate. Along the 

 sea -coast and on mountains, Lab. to Alaska, south on the Pacific Coar.t to Cal. 

 Also in Europe, Asia and apparently at the Strait of Magellan. Summer. 



Order 3. EBENALES. 



Shrubs or trees, with alternate simple leaves, the flowers mostly regu- 

 lar. Calyx free from the ovary (inferior) or more or less adnate to it. 

 Corolla gamopetalous or sometimes polypetalous. Stamens borne on 

 the tube or base of the corolla, as many as its lobes, and opposite them, 

 or more numerous. 



Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. Fam. i. Sapotaceae. 

 Stamens twice as many as the corolla-lobes, or more. 



Styles 2-8 ; flowers mostly monoecious or dioecious. Fam. 2. Ebenaceae. 

 Style i, simple or lobed ; flowers mostly perfect. 



Stamens in several series. Fam. 3. Symplocaceae. 



Stamens in i series. Fam. 4. Styracaceac. 



Family i. SAPOTACEAE Reichenb. 

 Sapodtlla Family. 



Shrubs or trees, mostly with a milky juice. Leaves entire, mostly 

 coriaceous and estipulate. Flowers small, regular and perfect, in axillary 

 clusters. Calyx inferior, the sepals usually 4-7, much imbricated. Co- 

 rolla gamopetalous, the tube 4~7-lobed, the lobes imbricated in the bud, 

 sometimes with as many or twice as many lobe-like appendages on the 

 throat. Stamens as many as the proper lobes of the corolla and inserted 

 on its tube ; staminodia usually present, alternate with the corolla-lobes ; 

 anthers 2-celled, the sacs longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary 2-5-celled, or 

 rarely many-celled ; ovules solitary in each cavity, anatropous or amphit- 

 ropous ; stigma simple. Fruit a fleshy berry, commonly i -celled and 

 i-seeded. Seed large, the testa bony or crustaceous; embryo straight; 

 endosperm fleshy, or none. About 35 genera and 400 species, mostly of 

 tropical regions. 



i. BUMELIA Sw. 



Wood very hard. Leaves sometimes clustered at the nodes. Flowers small, 

 pedicelled, white, fascicled in the axils. Calyx deeply 5-parted, the segments urn 

 equal. Corolla 5 -lobed, with a pair of lobe-like appendages at each sinus, its tube 

 short. Stamens 5, inserted near the base of the corolla-tube; anthers sagittate. 

 Staminodia 5, petaloid. Ovary 5-celled; style filiform. Berry small, the peri- 

 carp fleshy, enclosing a single erect seed. Seed shining, the hilum at the base. 

 [Greek, ox (large) ash.] About 30 species, natives of America. Besides the fol- 

 lowing, some 10 others occur in the southern U. S. 



Foliage, pedicels and calyx glabrous or nearly so. i. B. lycioides. 



Foliage, pedicels and calyx tomentose-pubescent, 2. B- 



