362 OHDEB 57. PASSIFLORACE^E. 



longer than the petals ; stam, longer than either; sty. hairy, 2-cleft ; fr. smooth. 

 In rocky woods, N. H. and Mass, to "Wise. N. to Hudson's Bay. Lvs. 9 to 18" 

 diam., generally cleft half way to the middle. Fls. nodding, greenish. Fr. pur- 

 ple. May, Jn. (R. triflorum Bw. R. jp,xosum Hook.) 



11 R. oxycanthoides L. St. clothed with bristly prickles ; subaxillary spines 3, 

 often fewer, united at base ; Ivs. 5-lobed, roundish, subcordate, cut-dentate ; ped. 

 about 2-flowered, very short; cal. tube cylindric; sty. cleft half-way ; fr. smooth. 



Can., in rocky woods. Readily distinguished from No. 10 by its numerous 

 prickles, but some of its forms aro nearly destitute of them. Fr. bluish purple. 



12 R. rotundifolium MX. Subaxillary spines mostly solitary, short ; Ivs. round- 

 ish, smooth, 3 to 5-lobed. iucisely crenate-dentate ; ped. smooth, 1 to 3-flowered ; 

 cal. cylindrical, smooth, segm. linear, finally reflexed ; pet. spatulate, unguiculate ; 

 stam. and 2-parted sty. slender, much exserted, smooth; berries smooth. In 

 woods, N. H. to N. Car. and Mo. Shrub 3 to 4f high. Sts. with a whitish 

 bark, the younger often prickly. (R. Missouriense Nutt.) Lvs. 1 to 2' diam.. 

 mostly truncate at base, shining above. Petioles ciliate, 1 to 3' long. Petals 

 yellowish-white. Fr. purple, delicious, resembling tho garden gooseberry. May. 



13 R. grdcile MX. Pubescent; st. scarcely prickly; subaxillary spines 1 to 3. 

 short, very slender ; Ivs. roundish, 3-lobed ; ped. 1 to 2-flowered, long and slen- 

 der ; cal tube much shorter than the linear, recurved segm. ; pet. very small ; fr. 

 smooth. Mts. of Tenn. and Ala. Apr. Probably another variety of No. 12. 



14 R. Uva-crispa L. ENGLISH, or GARDEN GOOSEBERRY. St. prickly; 

 Iva roundish, 3 to 5-lobed, hairy beneath, on short, hairy petioles ; ped. hairy, 

 I-flowerfd ; cal. campanulate ; sty. and ova. hairy ; fr. smooth or hairy, globous. 

 Gardens. Long cultivated, until there are several hundred varieties, with red, 

 white, green, and amber fruit, often weighing an ounce or more each. Apr. ^ Eur. 



ORDER LVL TURNERACE^E. 



Herbs with simple, alternate, exstipulate leaves, with the solitary Flowers 5-me- 

 rous, the petals and stamens inserted on the throat of the calyx. Ovary free, 1-celled, 

 with 3 parietal placentas ; styles 3, distinct. Fruit a 3-valved capsule ; seeds albumin- 

 ous, strophiolate. 



Genera, 2, species 60, confined (with one exception) to tropicai America. Properties, tonic 

 and aromatic. 



TURNERA, Plum. (In memory of Wm. Turner, M.D., author of 

 "A New Herball," London, 1551.) Calyx funnel-form; petals convo- 

 lute in aestivation, longer than the imbricated sepals ; styles 3 ; stigmas 

 flabellate, many-cleft ; capsule dehiscing to the middle. Fls. showy, 

 yellow. 



T. cistoides L. Plant hirsute, erect; fls. in the upper axils and terminal ; ped. 

 bractless, but jointed near the middle ; Ivs. lanceolate, obtusely serrate or entire, 



. subsessile, obtuse, the lower oblong-oval. 1^. Ga. from Savannah, along the rail- 

 road, westward (Feay, Pond), and Fla. Sts. 12 to 18' high, simple or branched 

 from the base. Lvs. 1 to 2' long. Fls. in a leafy, terminal rac. Ped. 9 ' long. 

 Fls. dimorphous (some with the stam. longer, others with the pistils loneer). Cor. 

 1' diam., deep yellow. Caps, globular, downy. Sds. obovate, sculptured, the 

 membranous caruncle lateral. Jn. Sept. 



ORDER LVII. PASSIFLORACE^. PASSIONWORTS. 



Plants herbaceous or shrubby, usually climbing, with alternate Ivs. and foliacoous 

 stipules. Fls. axillary or terminal, perfect, often with a 3-leaved involucre. Sepals 

 4 to 5, united below into a tube, the sides and throat of which are crowned with 

 circles of filamentous processes, which appear to be metamorphosed petals. Petals 

 5, arising from the throat of the calyx, outside the crown. Stamens 5, monodel- 



