50 MONOGRAPHIE DES URTICÉES. 



Herb.e annnœ V. perennes, suffrutices, frutices (rarissime scan- 

 dentes) vel intercluni arbores, odore (si uUo) herbaceo, succo 

 aqueo v. rarissime (nempe solum in Neraudia) lacteo; ramis ]un\o- 

 ribus iiecnon caulibus herbaceis sœpissimeque angulatis; ligno 

 molli sœpeque levissimo ; corlice tenui , fibris tenacibus farcto ; 

 epidermidis ccllulis permultis ampliatis singulisque concretione 

 calcarea s. cxjsloUlho parieti interne appensa expletis ; pilis (quum 

 adsunt) simplicibus rariusve basi slrato exleriore cellularum auctis 

 urentibnsque. 



Gemmj: axillares, solitaria? geminœ v. ternae, aliœ floriferœ, 

 alias folia condnplicata stipulisqiie pcrstepe velata exliibentes. 



FoLiA decidua aut persistenlia , alterna vel opposita, rarissime 

 quaterna, interdum (etiam a]md species oppositifolias) disticlia ac 

 inasquilatera et in eodem jugo haud raro inaequalis etiam magnitn- 

 dinis, nt plurimnm petiolata, simplicia, penni- sœpiusve tri-jialmati- 

 nervia, intégra aut saepius varie dentata, rarissime palmatiloba. 



Stipula ad basim petioli gemin.ie, caulinse rariusve pro parte 

 petiolares, axillares v. latérales, liberté v. inter se aut cum illis 

 folii oppositi magis minusve connatee. 



Flores apetali , nt plurimnm diclini, perraro polygami, S3:'pius 

 monoici v. dioici , rarissime solitarie axillares nec sa'])e in 

 receptaculo communi convexo v. concavo congesti , frequen- 

 tissime contra plane cymosi : cymis baud raro dichotomis, at 

 srepius irregulari-scorpioideis, nunc Iaxis, nunc conlraclis glome- 

 ratisque aut capituliformibus, nonnunqnam solitariis geminisve 

 inllorescentiam tune vere de(initam ofFormantibus, aut etiam spi- 

 catis racemosis v. panicnlatis inflorescentiamque mixtam ac 

 indefinitam sistentibus; pedicellis baud raro articulatis; bracleis 

 interdum nullis, plerumque parvis persistentibusque, sa^pe sca- 

 riosis, quandoque in involiicrum proprium v. commune gamo- 

 V. di-poly-pbyllum coalitis. 



Masc. : Perigonium viride rariusve coloratutn (albidum v. rubens) 

 et fere petaloideum, gamopbyllum, plerumque 4-5- rarissime 



