CLASS II r. 



117 



Style 2 lobed at the apex. Fruit 4 little Beed-like nutlets, surrounding the style 

 in the bottom of the calyx. See Class 14. Didynarafa. 



* * * Flowers glumaceous (Sedges). 



fAOT. 



OTPETCACEJ5. Species of Cyperus, Fimbristylus, Khyncospora, and Scltria. 3«6 



Order II. Digtnia. — 2 Styles or sessile Stigmas. 



* Flowers not glumaceous. 



Blittm.— Petals none. Calyx berry -like or fleshy. 299 



Autchia — Petals none. Calyx of 5 sepals. Seed 1. 54 



ILATIKE. — Petals and sepals 2 or 3. Seeds several. 46 



* * Flowers gliunaccous (Grasses). 



AxnoxAKTnuM. — Lateral flowers each of 1 aw ned palesc, neutral ; the perfect 



one 2-audrous. — Panicle contracted or spike like. i2T 



GRAMINEJ3. Species of Leersia, BracLyelytrum, and G'yceria. 408 



Order III. Trigynia. — 3 Styles or sessile stigmas, 



BrHWCLAKiA. — Sepals 5. Petals 5, entire. Capsule 1-celled, many-seeded. — 



Leaves feshy. Flowers small, reddish. 66 



CLASS III. TRIANDMA.— 3 Stamens. 



Order I. Monogynia. — 1 stijJe or sessile sttyma. 



* Corolla h-looed or parted. Leaves reticulate-veined . 



yiSli. — "Border of the calyx 3 to 6-toothed and persistent or obsolete. Corolla 

 tubular. 5 lobed, regular.— Stem* forking. Leans opposite. F.owers 

 small, whitish. 154 



* * Perianth 6 -parted. Leaves parallel-veined. 



• Flowers issuing from a spathe. 



Iris. — Divisions of the perianth alternately reflexed. Stamens under the 3 



large petal-like stigmas. — Flowers large, Hue, white and yellow. 3S£ 



SiSTP.inchium. — Divisions of the perianth equal, spreading. Stamens monodel- 



phou*. Style short, with 3 stigmas. — Leaves grassy. Flowers mostly blue. SCO 



Pardaxthcs. — Perianth regular, C-parted. Filaments thread-like. Stigma 



straight or incurved. — Flowers yellowish, spotted with red. 370 



Crocus. — Spathe radical. Perianth funnel-foam. Stigma 3-cleft, convolute,. 



cres-ied. — Bulbous exotics, with white, yellow, blue aeid purplish jlowtrs. 3T0 



TlORlDiA. — Perianth lobes oblong, upright-spreading, the alternate ones the 

 broadest. Stamens monodelphous: filaments united 8 into a long tube. 

 Style filiform. — Bulbous exotics with ytUow and red spotted Jiowers. 370 



Hiteranthera. — Perianth salver-form, with a glerder tube. Stamens dissimi- 

 lar. — Creeping or floating herbs, witfi kidney-shaped leaves, arJt blue or 

 w/dte fowers. 301 



Bchollbra. — Perianth salver-form. Stamens similar, with arrow-shaped an- 

 thers. — A water plant with linear leaves, and yellow fowers. 36J 



• * Flowers not spathceeous. 



Commiltka.— Calyx and corolla, separate, irregular. Stamens ecmctimef 6. 



Stigma single. — Flowers blue or white. S$& 



