70 17. HTPEEICACE^. 18. ACBKACEiE. 



margin, sep. lanceolate acute fringed with shortly stalked glands, pet. 

 elliptic entire without dots or glanda, styles half the length of 

 the capsule.—^. B. 371. -R. vi. 347.— Fragrant. St. -2 feet 

 high, simple, smooth, slender. Fl. in terminal dense panicles. — 

 Bushy limestone hills. P. VII. VHI. E. I. 



11. H. puVchrum (L.) ; st. erect round glabrous, I. cordate am- 

 plexicaul pellucid-punctate glabrous, sep. broadly ovate blunt 

 fringed with sessile glands, pet. ovate-lanceolate fringed with 

 glands.—^. B. 1227.— St. 12—18 in. high, nearly simple. Fl. 

 in loose, axillary, opposite, and terminal cymes. Buds tipped 

 with red. Anth. red. — Dry heaths, hanks, woods. P. VI. VII. 



E.S.I. 



**** Styles 3 ; stam. united throughout their lower half in 3 sets, 

 a scale between each set ; pet. equal-sided. Elodbs. 



12. H. elddes (L.) ; st. ascending round shaggy rooting below, 

 I. roundish-ovate sessile pellucid-punctate shaggy, sep. ovate 

 bluntish glabrous fringed with shortly stalked (reddish) glands, 

 pet. ovate entire, styles nearly as long as the capsules. — E. B. 

 109. E. palustris R. vi. 342. — St. prostrate helow, then 

 ascending and leafy, 6 — 8 in. long. Fl. in terminal and axillary 

 few-flowered cymes, — Spongy hogs. P. VII. VIII. E. S. I. 



Order XVHI. ACEEACEtE. 



Cal. 6-, rarely 6— 9-parted, imbricate. Pet. the same number, 

 inserted round an hypogynous disk. Stam. generally 8, inserted 

 on the hypogynous disk. Ovary 2-lobed, 2-ceUed. Style 1. 

 Stigmas 2. Fruit winged, separating into two indehiscent nuts- 

 (samaras) each with 1 cell and 1 — 2 seeds. Embryo curved, 

 albumen 0. — Trees with opposite leaves. Stip. 0. 



1. AcEB. Fl. some imperfect. Calyi 6-parted. Pet. 6. 

 Stam. usually 8, longer in the male flowers. 



1. A'CEE Linn. Maple. 



1. A. campes'tre (L.) ; 1. 6-lobed, lobes entirely or slightly 

 cut, corymbs erect, sep. and pet. linear hairy, wings of the fruit 

 horizontally diverging, ovary downy, stam. of the male flowers 

 as long as the corolla. — B. B. 304. — A small tree vnth corl^- 

 fissured bark.— Woods and hedges. T. V. VI. Maple. E. S.P I. 



t2. A. Pseudo-plat' anus (L.) ; 1. 4-lobed, unequally serrate, 

 racemes pendulous, ovary downy with spreading wings, stam. of 

 the male flowers twice as long as the coroUa. — E. B. 303. R, 



