POPULAR FLORA. 



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30. GTAPF-TREE FAMILY. Order CELASTRACE^. 

 ' Woody plants, with simple alternate or opposite leaves ; the divisions of the calyx and 

 the petals both overlapping in the bud ; the stamens as many as the petals (4 or 5) and 

 alternate with them, inserted on a thick expansion of the receptacle (disk) which fills the 

 bottom of the calyx. Pod colored, of 2 to 5 mostly one-seeded cells, showy when ripe in 

 autumn, especially when they open and display the seeds enveloped in a pulpy scarlet aril. 

 Flowers polygamous or nearly dioecious, white, in racemes : disk cup-shaped : style long. 

 Pod globular, orange-yellow. Leaves alternate. Our only species is a twin- 

 ing shrub, sometimes called Bittersweet, { CeUsirus) Waxwork. 

 Flowers perfect, flat, dull green or dark purple, in axillary racemes : disk flat, covering 

 the ovary, and bearing I or 5 very short stamens, the short style just rising 

 through it. Pods red, lobed. Shrubs: leaves opposite, {Eudnymus) Buening-bush 

 Pods smooth, strongly lobed, or Spixdle-tree. 

 Pods roundish, rough, m (Eudnymus) Stkawberky-bcsh. 



31. SOAPBEERT EAMILT. Order SAPINDACE.a:. 

 The proper Soapberry-i family belongs mostly to warmer climates ; 



shrubs and 



347 344 3;S 346 _ ,. . , 



mg to three of its sub- 

 families : 



but we have 

 trees belong- 



3-14. Red Boclrtfyc, rerliiccd in size, 

 wiLh calyx and Iwo petals taken away. 347. Mi 

 divided lenglliwise. 348 Same, divided crnsswi; 



two ovules in each eel.. 349. Same, parllygruwn, oi.ly one seed JeaveS, and flOWCrS in thick panicleS. 

 unrstuig. ' ^ 



I. BLADDERNUT Sub- 

 family. Flowers regular and 

 perfect. Stamens 5, as many 

 as the petals, and alternate 

 with tliem. Seeds bony. 

 Leaves opposite, pinnate or 

 with 3 leaflets, having stipules, 

 and also little stipules {stipds) 

 to the leaflets. 



Shrub: flowers white in racemes. Fruit of 3 bladdery 

 podsunited. (Staphylia) Bladdernut. 



n. HOESECHESTNUT Subfamily. Flowers po- 

 lygamous^, some of them having no good pistil, mostly 

 irregular and tinsymmetrical. Calyx bell-shaped or 

 tubular, 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, with claws, on the 

 receptacle. Stamens generally 7, long. Style one. 

 Ovary 3-celled, with a pair of ovules in each cell, 

 only one or two ripening in the fruit; which becomes 

 :ne, a leathery 3-valved pod. Seeds very large, like chests 

 nuts. Fine ornamental trees, with opposite palmate 



growing. 350. Ripe pod bursting. 



Petals 5, spreading; stamens declined: fruit prickly. Leaflets 7, 

 Petals 4, unlike, with long claws in the calyx. Leaflets generally B, 



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{^SCulus) *H0RSECHESTSUT, 



(j:Esculus, § Pavia) Buckeye. 



