140 PRACTICAL BOTANY. 



Pod globular, 3-celled, 3-valved, berry-like, orange- 

 colored. Seeds enclosed by a pnlpy, scarlet aril, 1 or 2 in each 

 cell. Flowers dioeciously-polygamous, small, greenish-white, 

 in raceme-like clusters at the end of 4he branches. Shrub 

 sarmentose and climbing. Celastrus scandens, L. 



163. (145.) Leafless plants, with scales in place of leaves, 

 parasitic on roots, tawny, reddish, or white. Herbs, smooth 

 or pubescent, and either with a solitary, 6-petalled and 10- 

 androus flower at the summit of the stem (the herb in this 

 case smooth and waxy-white), or with a raceme of flowers, 

 the terminal one usually S-petalled and 10-androus, while the 

 rest are 4-petalled and 8-androus, the herb in this case red- 

 dish or whitish, and slightly pubescent. (126) JMEonotropa. 



Plants with ordinary green leaves 164 



164:. Leaves digitate, or pinnate 165 



Leaves simple, sometimes lobed 166 



165. Leaves digitate. Shrubs or trees 230 



Leaves twice-pinnate. Stamens 10 (or 5). An 



herb, see 151. A tree, see 847. 



1 66. Calyx 2-clef t, its tube cohering with the base of the 

 ovary, ^tyle 3- to 8-cleft, oftener deeply parted 206 



Calyx of more segments or sepals 167 



167. L Stamens usually 8, on a disk. Calyx colored, 

 commonly 5- (rarely 4- to 9-) lobed. Ovary 2-lobed ; style bi- 

 fid. Fruit consisting of" 2 samaras, united at the base. 

 Flowers often polygamous. Petals as many as the calyx- 

 lobes, sometimes wanting. Leaves palmately-lobed, opposite. , 

 Flowers small, in umbel-like clusters or racemes. Shrubs or 

 trees. Acer (662). 



n. Stamens 6 or 7. Anthers opening at the top. 



153 

 in. Stamens 10. Ovary not 2-lobed 168 



168. Leaves lobed or parted, opposite. Sepals and pe- 

 t.als 5. Stamens united at the base, the 5 alternate ones long- 

 er, and each with a gland at its base. Style with 5 stigmas — 

 that is, of 5 partly united styles. At maturity, the styles sepa- 

 rate from the base, curling back elastically and carrying with 

 them the small 1-seeded pods, their points remaining fixed to 

 the summit of the axis. Geranimn. 



