OUDEII 10G. CIIEMOPODIACE.f:. 



cordate-hastate, with acute lobe? ; outer sepal keeled and winded on the back ; fruit 

 pinuoth, black. Thickets. 3 12f. . A native form, 

 /3. Kranrttn*, has the raceme panicled and the sepals with very broad wings. 



21 1. sagiUatnni L. Scratch-grass. Climbing, 3 5f, rough backwards; leaves 

 lance-sagittate ; flowers in small heads, whitish ; stamens 8 ; style 3. Q) Wet. 



22 I*, arf folium L. Rough with reversed prickles, 3 5f ; leaves hastate, apex and 

 lobes pointed ; flowers racemed ; stamens 6 ; styles 2. Wet. 



9. FAGOPYRUM, Toura. BUCKWHEAT. Calyx colored, equally 5- 

 parled, persistent, unchanged. Stamens 8, alternate with 8 honey-glands. 

 8t} r les 3, with capitate stigmas. Ach. 3-angled, much exceeding the calyx. 

 (D Leaves cordate-hastate. Flowers rose-white, in panicled racemes. 



1 F. escnlentum Moench. Smoothish ; leaves with obtuse lobes ; flowers showy, 



numerous, sought by bees : achenia ovoid-triangular, wingless, black. Fields. 2 If. 



2 F. TARTARICUM. India Wheat. Glabrous; leaves broader than long, lobes acutish ; 



ra semes axillary and terminal, scarcely panicled ; acbenia lance-triangular, angles 

 iniiate-deutate. rather obtuse ; calyx minute. Tartary. Cultivated. 



ORDER CV. PHYTOLACCACE^. POKEWORTS 



Herbs with alternate, entire leaves and perfect, 5-parted flowers. (Jalyjt 

 free. Stamen* 5 30, alternate with the sepals when of the same number 

 Ocary of 1 to several carpels, each 1-ovuled. Styles and stigmas as many 

 as carpels Fruit baccate or acheniate. Seeds erect, with the embryo 

 coiled around the albumen. 



Styles and carpels 5 12. Fruit baccate. Leaves exstipulate PHYTOLACCA. I 



Stylo and carpel 1. Leaves with stipules. a, Berry globtfiar, nmooth BITINA. J 



a Achenium with 2 bonks PKTIVKRIA. 3 



1. FHYTOLACCA, Toura. POKE. GARGET-WEED. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Stamens 5 25. Styles 5 12. Berry depressed-globular, with as many 

 seeds as styles. Herbaceous. Racemes terminal, soon opposite the leaves. 

 P. decandra L. Stem stout, purplish, tall ; leaves ovate ; flowers with 10 stamens 



and 10 styles ; berries black, full of crimson juice. Hedges. 5 8f. July + . 



2. RIVINA, Plum. Calyx 4-parted, 3-bracted. Sta. 4 or 8. Berry at 

 last dry, 1-seeded, embryo a vertical ring. Shrubby, with racemes termi- 

 nal, soon lateral. 



R. Isevls L. Branching, smooth, 6 8f ; Ivs. ovate ; fls. rose-white, In long racemes 

 stamens 4. Fla., and W. Herbage bright-green. 



3. PETIVERIA ALLIACEA L. Half-shrubby, 2 3f, with obovate-ob 

 luse leaves and spicate flowers. Grows in S. Oar. (Michaux), and S. to the tropics. 



ORDER CVI. CHENOPODIACE^. CHENOPODS OR GOOSE-FOOTS. 



Herbs chiefly weed-like and homely, more or less fleshy, with alternate 

 exstipulate leaves. Bracts not scarious. Flowers greenish, regular. Caly- 

 imbricated in bud. Stamens as many as, and opposite to the calyx lobes, o* 

 fewer Ovary 2-styled, 1-celled, becoming a 1-seeded, thin utricle or cary 

 cpsis. Embryo coiled or spiral. 



