SYMPETALOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS AXGIOSPERMS. 23 



Order XXXIL VACCINIACE^. 



Shrill), 1 to 8 feet high, branching. Leaves alternate. Plovvers white or 

 reddish, small, in lateral bracted racemes. Calyx adherent, 5-toothed. Fruit 

 a black or dark-blue berry, globular, 10-celled, 10-seeded. 



Huckleberry, Gaylussacia. 

 Herb, stem slender, 1 to 5 feet in length, prostrate, throwing up assurgent 

 branches. Leaves one half an inch long, elliptical. Calyx 4-parted ; anthers 

 twice as long as filaments. Fruit a berry, varying from bell-shape to globular. 



Cranberry, Oxycoccus. 



Order XXXIII. SAPOTACE^. 



Tree, 60 to 70 feet high, 2 to 3 feet in diameter. Leaves alternate, stipules 

 falling ; petioles long, stout, thickened at base ; blade obovate oblong, 

 leathery, clothed beneath with rusty yellow short woolly pubescence. Flowers 

 axillary, stalked. 



Gutta Percha, Dichopsis. 



Order XXXIV. EBENACE^. 



Tree, 30 to 50 feet high, 10 to 18 inches in diameter. Leaves elliptical, 

 bluntly acuminate, entire, dark-green, paler underneath. Flowers dioecious 

 and polygamous, 4-6-lobed. Corolla bel]-shai)ed, 4-6-parted, rolled together 

 in the bud. Stamens 4-8 or numerous. Calyx an inch or more in diameter, 

 fleshy and persistent. Fruit globular, 4-8-celled, 8-12-seeded. 



Persimmon, Ebony, Diospyros. 



Order XXXV. OLEACE.^. 



Small tree, 20 to 30 feet in height, much branched. Leaves lanceolate, entire, 

 deep-green above, light, hoary, beneath, and evergreen. Flowers axillary, in 

 short compact racemes. Small and white calyx, short, 4-toothed, persistent. 

 Tube of corolla short, limb 4-parted. Fruit a fleshy oily drupe. 



Olive, Olea. 



Order XXXVI. LOGANIACE^. 



Small tree, 20 to 30 feet high. Bark smooth, gray, much branched ; branches 

 swollen or knotted at the nodes. Leaves 5-nerved, with 2 ribs each, side of 

 midrib extending from base to apex ; oA^ate pointed. Calyx somewhat bell- 

 shaped, with 4 lobes which just meet. Stamens 4 or 5 on the corolla. Filaments 

 short, attached to the back of the antliers. Fruit globular, size of a medium- 

 sized orange, rind hard, smooth, yellow, inclosing a fleshy pulp in which are 

 imbedded a numl)er of flat circular seeds, concave on one side and convex on 

 the other, an inch in diameter and a quarter of an inch thick. Wood hard 

 and bitter. 



Nux Vomica, Strychnos. 



Order XXXVII. BORRAGINACE^. 



Herb, 4 feet high, l)ranching near the top. Leaves large, coarse, pctioled, 

 lower ones broad, lanceolate. Flowers in terminal racemes. Calyx 5-parted. 

 Corolla tubular, bell-shaped. 



Comfrey, Symphytum. 



