94. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 
28. 
29. 
30. 
381. 
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APPENDIX III. 
Apple Family. 
Similar to 22, but pistil 1 only, of several carpels, becoming 
a pome. 
Plum Family. 
Similar to 22, but with a single pistil, becoming a drupe. 
Pea Family. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees with irregular 5-merous flowers; 
stamens 10, in 2 sets of 9 and 1; a single simple pistil, 
becoming a pod; leaves usually compound. 
Staff Tree Family. 
Shrubs or trees, with 4~5-merous flowers; stamens 4-5, often 
inserted on a disk; pistil 1, with 2-5 cells. 
Maple Family. 
Trees, with palmately veined, simple opposite leaves (or some- 
times with compound leaves) and clustered, usually in- 
conspicuous flowers. 
Geranium Family. 
Herbs, with regular 5-merous flowers; stamens 10; pistil 
single; and ovulary several-celled. 
Violet Family. 
Herbs, often apparently “stemless,” with irregular 5-merous 
flowers, which are spurred; stamens 5; pistil 1; one-celled 
with 8 parietal placente, becoming in fruit a pod. 
Cactus Family. 
Herbs, generally with swollen, distorted, jointed, prickly 
stems, no foliage leaves, and often with large flowers of 
many petals and stamens; fruit a berry. 
Loosestrife Family. 
Herbs, with perfect 4-7-merous flowers, with ovulary and pod 
inclosed in the calyx tube, but free from it. 
Evening Primrose Family. 
Herbs, with alternate simple leaves; 2—4-merous flowers; 
stamens usually 8; asingle 4-celled pistil adherent to the 
calyx, in fruit becoming a pod. 
C. Symprtatovus (with united petals). 
33. 
Wintergreen Family. 
Mostly shrubs, with regular 4—5-merous flowers; anthers 
2-celled, usually opening by a hole at the end; pistil 1, 
usually of the same number of cells as the petals. 
