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lateral or nearly tei'minal. Fr. of many small nuts placed 

 upon ajlattish dry receptacle. Seed pendulous or ascending. 



9. CoMAEUM. Cai., cor., stam., and pistils as in Potetitilla. 

 Keceptach ultimately large, spungy, persistent. Style lateral 

 near the top of the nut. Seed pendulous. 



10. Fbagabia. Oal., cor., stam., and pistils as in Poteniilla. 

 Receptacle large, iucculent, pulpy, deciduous. Style lateral 

 near the base of the nut. Seed ascending. 



11. Rub us. Cal. concave or flattish, 5-parted. Pet. 6. 

 Stam. many. Styles nearly terminal. Carp, many, succu- 

 lent (drupes), placed upon a hemispherical or conical spongy 

 receptacle. Seed pendulous. 



** Attachment of the seed distant from that of the style, radicle 

 inferior. Nuts with long awnlike styles. 



12. Dhyas. Cal. 8 — 10-cleft, in one row. Pet. 8 — 9. Stam. 

 many. Fr. of many small nuts, tipped with the persistent 

 hairy styles, which are not jointed. Receptacle flat, dry. 

 Seed ascending. 



13. Gbutm. Cal. 10-cleft, in 2 rows, the outer parts smaller. 

 Pet. 5. Stam. many. Fr. of many small nuts, tipped with 

 the persistent jointed styles hooked at the Joining. Recep- 

 tacle elongated, dry. Seed ascending. 



Tr. IV. ROSIDJE. Fruit formed of many small A.xy nuts en- 

 closed in thejieshy calyx-ttibe. 



14. Rosa. Cal. urceolate, contracted at the mouth, ultimately 

 fieshy, 5-fid. Pet. 5. Stam. many, inserted with the petals 



on the rim of the tube of the calyx. 



Suborder III. PQMEyE. 



Calyx-tube thick and fieshy, in fruit adhering to the carpels 

 and forming a 1 — 5-celled. pome : thus fl. apparently superior. 



15. Ceat^gus. Calyx-segments 5, acute. Pet. 5. Styles 

 1 — 5. Fr. oval or round, concealing the upper end of the 

 1 — o bony 1 — 2-seeded carpels. 



16. CoTONBASTEB. Calyx-segments 5. Pet, 6. Stj'les 2 — 5. 

 Fr. turbinate, its nuts adhering to the sides of the calyx 

 but not cohering at the centre. — Stam. ei'ect, aa long as the 

 teeth of the calyx. 



17. MBSPiLr.s. Calyx-segments 5, leaflike. Pet. 5. Styles 



