ONAGRACEAE 109 



exposed scales; small obovate subsessile entire leaves; rather 

 large perfect flowers with distinct crisped rounded long-clawed 

 petals; and small round capsules, with winged seeds. 

 Flowers pink. L. indica. 



Flowers purplish. L. indica violacea. 



Flowers white. L. indica alba. 



Family ONAGRACEAE. Evening Primrose Family. 

 A rather small and unimportant family, chiefly herbs of 

 which the mutating evening primroses (Oenothera) are of 

 great interest to students of variation and heredity. 



FUCHSIA. 



Shrubs, mostly tender, often grown as soft-wooded window 

 plants, but exceptionally becoming small deciduous trees, with 

 simple, small-toothed petioled opposite leaves varying to alter- 

 nate or more commonly whorled; crescent-shaped leaf-scars 

 with a transverse bundle-trace; small scaly buds sometimes 

 superposed; showy axillary tubular epigynous perfect 4- 

 merous flowers -i~~'J -L Blender stalks, the calyx-segments 

 equally conspicuous with the darker petals; and small berry- 

 like fruit. 



Leaves ovate. X F. hybrida. 



Leaves lanceolate. F. gracilis. 



Family CORNACEAE. Dogwood Family. 



A rather small family, chiefly of shrubs; the dogwoods 

 much used in massed planting. 



CORNUS. Dogwood. Cornel. 



Deciduous shrubs, or a few undershrubs or small trees, 

 the latter with rather hard pale or brownish wood with minute 

 diffused ducts and fine but mostly evident medullary rays; 

 roundish often bright-colored twigs usually compressed at the 

 nodes; roundish homogeneous pale pith; opposite or in one 

 case alternate low or exceptionally raised U-shaped leafrscars 

 connected by a transverse line, with 3 bundle-traces; no stipule 

 scars; usually solitary appressed elongated buds, often stalked 

 or developing the first season, with 2 valvate scales; simple 



