SfiA OUDEit ST.— PASSIFLORACE^. 



longer than tlio petals ; stam. longer than either ; sty. hairy, 2-clefl ; fr. smooth.—' 

 In rocky woods, N. U. and Mass. to Wise. N. to Hudson's Bay. Lys. 9 to 18" 

 diam., generally cleft half way to the middle. Pis. nodding, greenish. Fr. pur- 

 ple. May, Jn. (R. triflorum Bw. R. eaxoaum Hook.) 



11 R. O3iyoanthoides L. St. clothed vnih bristly prickles ; subaxillary spines ."!, 

 often fewer, united at base ; Ivs. 5-lobed, roundish, suboordate, cut-dentate ; ped. 

 about 2-flowered, very short; cdt. tube cylindric; sty. cleft half 'way ; fr. smooth. — 

 Can., in rocky woods. Beadily distinguished from No. 10 by its numerous 

 prickles, but some of its forma arc nearly destitute of them. Fr. bluish purple. 



12 R. rotvmdifdliuin Mx. Subaxillary spines mostly solitary, short ; Its. round- 

 ish, smooth, 3 to 5-lobed. inoisely crenate-dentate ; ped. smooth, 1 to 3-flowered ; 

 cal. cylindrical, smooth, segm. linear, finally reflexed ; pet. S2}atulate, unguiculaie ; 

 stam. and 2-parted sty. slender, much exserted, smooth; berries smooth. — In 

 "\\-oods, K. H. to N. Car. and Mo. Shrub 3 to 4f high. Sts. with a -whitish 

 bark, the younger often prickly. (R. Missouriense Nutt.) Lvs. 1 to 2' diam., 

 mostly truncate at base, shining above. Petioles ciliate, 1 to 3' long. Petals 

 yellowish-white. Fr. purple, delicious, resembling the garden gooseberry. May. 



13 R. gr^oile Mx. Pubescent; st. scarcely prickty; subaxillary spines 1 to 3. 

 short, very slender ; lvs. roundish, 3-lobed ; ped. 1 to 2-flowered, long and slen- 

 der ; cal, tube much shorter than the linear, recurved segm. ; pet. very small ; fr. 

 smooth. Mts. of Tenn. and Ala. Apr. — Probably another variety of No. 12. 



14 R. Uva-crispa L. English, or Gaeden Gooseberry. St. prickly; 

 lvs. roundish, 3 to 6-lobed, hairy beneath, on short, hairy petioles ; ped. hairy, 

 l-flowered ; cal. campanulate ; sty. and ova. hairy ; fr. smooth or hairy, globous. — 

 Gardens. Long cultivated, until there are several hundred varieties, "with red, 

 ■white, green, and amber fruit, often weighing an ounce or more each. Apr. \ Eur. 



Order LVI. TUENERACE^. 



Kerbs with simple, alternate, cxstipulate leaves, with the solitary Flowers 5-me- 

 rous, the petals and stamens inserted on the throat of the calyx. Ovary free, l-celled, 

 with 3 parietal placenta ; styles 3, distinct. Fruit a 3-valved capsule ; seeds albumin- 

 ous, stropliiolate. 



iinera 2, species 60, confined (with one exception) to tropici. Amcricji. Properiic.i, tonio 

 anil iLromatic. 



TURNERA, Plum. (In memory of Wm. Turner, M.D., .autLor of 

 ''A New Ilerball," London, 1551.) Caly.Y funnel-form ; petals convo- 

 lute in aestivation, longer than the imbricated sepals ; styles 3 ; stigmas 

 dabcllato, many-cleft ; capsule dehiscing to tlie middle. — Fls. showy, 

 yellow. 



T. cistoides L. Plant hirsute, erect ; fls. in the upper axils arid terminal ; ped. 

 bractless, but jointed near the middle ; lvs. lanceolate, obtusely serrate or entire, 

 subaessile, obtuse, the lower oblong-oval. — % 6a. from Savannah, along the rail- 

 road, westward (Feay, Pond), and Fla. Sts. 12 to 18' high, simple or branched 

 from the base. Lvs. 1 to 2' long. Fls. in a leafy, terminal rao. Ped. 9" long. 

 Fls. dimorphous (some with the stam. longer, others with the pistils longer). Cor. 

 r diam., deep yellow. Caps, globular, downy. Sds. obovate, sculptured, the 

 membranous caruncle lateral. Jn. — Sept. 



Order LVII. FASSIFLORACE.^. Passionworts. 



Plants herbaceous or shrubby, usually climbing, with alternate lvs. and foliaceous 

 stipules. Fls. axillary or terminal, perfect, often ■l^■ith a 3-leaved involucre. Sepals 

 4 to f), united below into a tube, tho sides and throat of which are crowned with 

 circles of filamentous processes, which appear to be metamorphosed petals. Peiali 

 u, arising from the throat of the calyx, outside tho crown. Stamens 5, monodel- 



