S62 Order 61.— PASSIFLORACE^. 



longer than the petals ; stam. longer than either ; sty. hairy, 2-olefl; ; fr. smooth.— 

 In rooky woods, N. H. and Mass. to "Wiiso. N. to Hudson's Bay. Lvs. 9 to 18" 

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

 ple. May, Jn. (R. trifloram Bw. E. saxosum Hook.) 



11 R. ozycanthoides L. Si. clothed with Tyristty pricJdes ; subaxittary spines 3, 

 often fewer, united at base; lvs. 6-lobed, roundish, suboordate, cut-dentate; ped. 

 about 2-flowered, very short; col. tube cylindn-ic; sty. cleft half way; fr. smooth. — 

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

 prickles, but some of its forms are nearly destitute of them. Fr. bluish purple. 



12 R. rotundifolium Mx. Subaxillary spines mostly solitary, short; lvs. round- 

 ish, smooth, 3 to 5-lobed. incisely crenate-dentate ; ped. smooth, 1 to 3-ilowered ; 

 cat cylindrical, smooth, segm. linear, finally reflexed ; pet spatuiate, wngmculaie ; 

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

 woods, 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. grdoile Mx. Pubescent; st. scarcely prickly; subaxiUary spines 1 to 3, 

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

 der ; cat tube much shorter than the linear, recwrved segm. ; pet. very small ; fr. 

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



14 R. TTva-crispa L. English, or Gaeden Goosbbeeby. St. prickly; 

 lvs. roundish, 3 to 5-lobed, hairy beneath, on short, hairy petioles ; ped. hairy, 

 \-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. 



Okdeb LVI. TUENERACE^. 



Eerbs with simple, alternate, exstipulato leaves, with the sohtary Flowers 5-me- 

 fous, the petils and stamens inserted on the throat of the calyx. Ovary free, l-ceUed, 

 with 3 parietal placentae ; styles 3, distinct. Pruit a 3-valved capsule ; seeds albumin- 

 6U3, strophiolate. 



Genera 2, species 60, confined (with one exception) to tropica* America. Properties, tonio 

 and aromatic 



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

 ''A New Herball," London, 1551.) Calyx funnel-form; petals convo- 

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

 flabeliate, many-cleft; capsule dehiscing to the middle. — Fls. showy, 

 yellow. 



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

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

 subsessile, obtuse, the lower oblong-oval. — 11 Ga. 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. Fla. in a leafy, terminail rac. Ped. 9' long. 

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

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

 membranous caruncle lateral. Jn. — Sept. 



Oedbe LVII. PASSIFLORACE^. Passionwokts. 



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

 stipules. Fls. axillary or terminal, perfect, often with a 3-leaved involucre. Sepals 

 4 to 5, united below into a tube, the sides and throat of which are crowned with 

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

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



