SYNOPTICAL KEY. x ix 



-i — I — i — t- Fruit indehiscent, dry or berry- or drupe-like, 2- (rarely 3-5-) celled, the cells with 

 one suspended seed. Ovary with an epigynous disk (wanting in Garrija). 



+* Flowers in umbels. Herbs, mostly with alternate and compound leaves. 



45. TJmbelliferae, p. 252. Carpels and styles 2 : fruit dry. Umbels mostly compound. 



4b'. Araliaceae, p. 273. Carpels and styles 4 or 5, forming a berry-like fruit Umbels panicled. 



++ ++ Flowers in cymes or aments. Shrubs (rarely herbaceous) with opposite entire leaves. 



47. Cornaceae, p. 27 J. Drapes baccate, 1 - 2-celled. Flowers perfect and cymose, or dioecious 



and in aments, 4-5-mcrous : petals valvate, distinct : style 1. 

 Baccate drapes containing 1 to 5 seed-like nutlets. Flowers perfect, cymose, 5-merous : petals 



imbricate, united. Shrubs with simple or pinnate leaves. S.\Mr,rri:.£ in Caprifoliacece. 

 Fruit a berry or drupe, containing 2 to 5 thin 1 - 2-celled carpels or nutlets : ovaries 2 in each 



carpel, ascending. Flowers 5-merous : stamens 10 or 20 : petals imbricate, distinct. 



Shrubs or trees, with simple alternate stipulate leaves. Pomaces in Rosacea:. 



Division II. GAMOPETAL.E. Petals united above their base (very rarely wanting). Calyx 

 generally persistent (sometimes minute). 



A. Ovary inferior. 

 * Filaments and anthers distinct Leaves opposite. 



48. Caprifoliaceae, p. 277. Fruit a 1 - 5-celled, 1 - few-seeded berry or capsule. Stamens 4 or 



5 : style 1 or none. Shrubs (one low creeper), with simple or pinnate leaves and no 

 stipules. Seed albuminous. 

 19. Rubiaceae, p. 281. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 2-4-celled, 2-4-seeded. Flowers regular, 

 4 - 5-merous : style 1, entire or cleft Shrubs with capitate Howers, or herbs with Rowers 

 mostly cymose ; leaves entire, opposite and stipulate, or verticillate. Seed albuminous. 



50. Valerianaceae, p. 2Sti. Ovary 3-celled, becoming a 1-celled 1-seeded akene-like fruit Sta- 



mens 3, fewer than the corolla-lobes. Flowers irregular. Herbs, with opposite simple 

 or pinnate leaves, without stipules. Albumen noue. 



* « Anthers or filaments (5) united into a tube around the 2-cleft or entire style. No stipules. 



51. Compositse, p. 288. Fruit an akene. Flowers in an involucrate head : calyx reduced to 



a pappus or wanting : filaments mostly distinct. Albumen none. 

 62. Lobeliaceas, p. 443. Capsule 1- 2-celled, many-seeded, more or less inferior. Flowers 

 irregular, scattered or racemose : filaments united ; anthers sometimes distinct. Herbs, 

 m it li alternate simple leaves. Seeds albuminous. 



* « « Stamens distinct. Leaves alternate, without stipules. 



53. Campanulaceae, p. 445. Capsule 2 - 5-celled, many-s led, with central placenta?. FIowj- 



ere regular, 5-merous: style 1, 2-5-lobed. Herbs; leaves simple. Seeds albuminous. 



Berry many-seeded, 1 -5-celled. Flowers regular, 4-5-merous: anthers opining by terminal 

 pores : style 1. Shrubs, with Bimplo leaves. Vaci imim in 



Fruit fleshy, indehiscent Flowers monoecious or dioecious : stamens commonly united. Tendril- 

 bearing trailing herbs. I ' KJS. 



B. Ovary superior or nearly so, compound. (Stipules none.) 

 • Corolla regular. Stamens not didynamous. 



-i- Fruit 5 - many-celled. 



54. Ericaceae, p. 1 is. Fruit berry-like or capsular, 5 - 10-celled, 5 many-seeded, with central 



(rarely parietal) placenta). Flowers 1-5-merons: style 1 : anther-cells opening by a 

 terminal poro or chink. Shrubs, with simple alternate leaves (opposite in A 

 scaly bracted herbs without green foliage. 



55. Lennoaceae. p. 164. Fruit drupaceous, 12- 20-celled and -seeded. Parts of the flowei 



lo : style' 1 : anthers opening lengthwise. Fleshyscaly herbs, without green herbage. 



+- +- Fruit 1 -4-celli 1. 

 + + Fruit 1-celled, with a centra] basal placenta. 



56. Plumbaginaceae, p, 165. Capsule a 1-seeded utricle Inclosed in the scarious calyx. Flowers 



5-merous : petals nearly distinct. Maritime acaulescent herbs, with entire leaves. 



57. Primulaceae, p. 466. Capsule 6-valved or circumseissile, fow - many-seeded : pi 



basal. Flowers mostbj 5-morous : si.nn.-ns opposite the lobes of the c Ila, which is 



wanting in Olaux: stylo 1. Herbs, with mostly entire alternate li 



