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THE FLORA. 



ORDER CIII. PHYTOLACCACE^. Pokeweeds. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves, no stipules, and flowers racemed ; 



tepali colored, 4 or 5 ; petals none ; stamens few or many ; 



gcary of one or several carpels, which are united into a ring, forming , 



berry in fruit; cells as many as the carpels, each 1-seedbd; 

 tmbryo curved around the fleshy albumen. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



Sepals 5, roundish. Sta. 5-20. Ovary 5-12-carpeled and seeded. PHTTOLAO'OA. 1 

 Sepals' 4, persistent. Stamens 4-12. Ovary 1-carpeled and 1-seeded. 8. EIVI'NA. 



PHYTOLAC'CA. Poke. 



Character expressed in the 

 Analysis. Tall and stout per- 

 ennials, with greenish flowers 

 and purple berries. 



P. decan'dra. Plant 5-8f. high, 



very smooth, bushy. Leaves 



large, ovate, acute at each end, 



petioled. Kacemes at first 



terminal, finally opposite to 



the leaves. Berries oblate, of g-Kyn// g^i T i\ \ \\ NX \\\ t5P< 



a rich dark purple. July-Sept. \^ ^T iA-^X^/ N^ 

 Fig. 62T. Phytolacca decandria. leaves, flowers, and fruit 8. A flower, natural size. 9. It* 

 stamens and ovary. Fig. 630. Cross-section of the ovary. 1. A seed cut open, showing the em- 

 bryo coiled around the albumen. 



ORDER CV. CHENOPODIACE^E. Goose-foots. 



Herb*, mostly homely weeds, more or less fleshy, with alternate leaves 

 stipules none, scarious bracts none. Flowers apetalons, small, greenish ; 

 stamen* opposite the sepals or fewer in number than they ; 

 owry 2-styied, forming a 1-seeded utricle or caryopsis. 

 Embryo coiled or spiral in the seed. 



Analysis of the Genera. 



{ Stem .'wining and climbing. Flowers in many racemes, white.... (d) 

 $ Stems erect. Leaves none, or fleshy and terete, often spinescent....() 

 f Stems erect. Leaves flat, neither fleshy nor Kpinescent. Flowers greenish ... (tl 



