KEY. 149 



thick, with the linear leaves crowded toward the summit. 

 Peduncle long and naked, bearing a dichotomous cyme of 

 purple flowers. Perennial. Talinum teretifolium, L. 



Sepals 3 or 6 217 



317. Sepals and petals 6. Stamens 12-18. Fruit a 

 pulpy berry. Seeds enclosed in a pulpy aril. Leaves round, 

 7- to Olobed, peltate. (142) Podophyllum peltatum, L. 



Sepals 3,- united at the base only, with 2 bracklets 

 outside 22 



21 8. (81.) Corolla spurred or saccate at the base. Leaves 



alternate. Flowera usually drooping. 219 



Corolla not spurred nor saccate 226 



319. Stamens usually numerous. Delphinium 42 



Filaments 2 (compound) or 5 220 



330. Membranaceous filaments 2, each consisting of 3 

 united ones, and bearing 3 anthers. Petals 5. Leaves com- 

 pound. Ovary 1 -celled. Fruit either a many-seeded capsule, 

 or a fleshy, 1-seeded, indehiscent nut. Flowei-S white, rose- 

 color, purple, or yellowish 221 



Filaments 5, each with an anther. Leaves simple, 

 sometimes pedately divided. Ovary either 1-celled and 

 3-carpelled, or 5-celled. Flowera white, blue, violet or yel- 

 low 224 



331. Corolla 2-spurred, or2-saccate at the base. Flow- 

 ers either in axillary cymes, or in simple or panicled racemes, 

 white, rose-color, or pui-ple 222 



Corolla 1-spun-ed at the base. Capsule either inde- 

 Tiiscent, nut-like, fleshy, 1-seeded, or slender, 2-valved-, many- 

 seeded. Flowers in racemes, whitish, rose-color, or yellow. 



223 ' 

 233. Petals united into an ovate corolla, becoming diy 

 and persistent. A climbing vine. Flowers pale rose-color, in 

 axillary cymose clusters. Young petioles tendiil-like. 



Adlumia cirrhosa, Haf. 



Petals slightly united into a heart-shaped corolla, 



the inner ones crested, deciduous or withering. Flowers in 



simple or paniculate racemes, on scapes, white or purple. 



Seeds crested. Dicentra. 



