52 fam. 6i f e:. 



1. Sepals and stamens 5 inserted at the base of the ovary; styles united 



to near the top, ______» Anychiastrum 



A. (Paronychia) Baldwinii. With prostrate wiry branches at the base of the stem ; 



sepals oval, 3- ridged, ciliate. Dry soil. Summer and Fall. 



61. Phytolaccaceae, Pokeweed Family. 



Herbs, shrubs or trees with alternate leaves and per- 

 fect or dioecious flowers collected in racemes or panicles, 

 terminal or axillary; calyx of 4-5 distinct or partially united 

 sepals; petals none; stamens 4-8, rarely more, distinct 

 or united, inserted below the ovary; ovary 1-several celled; 

 stigmas various; fruit a berry. 



1. Herbs or shrubs with thickish entire leaves without stipules, flowers in 

 terminal racemes; calyx 3-bracted, 4-5 parted; stamens 5-25, but 

 reduced to staminodia in the pistillate flowers; ovary superior, 

 composed of 5-12 more or less united carpels; styles 5-12 distinct. 



Phytolacca 

 P. decandra, Poke-weed, Pigeon-berry. Stem stout from a large poisonous 

 root, branched; racemes somewhat drooping with pink pedicels, calyx white 

 or greenish, berries dark purple filled with a crimson juice. Waste places. 

 Summer and Fall. 

 1. Shrubby herbs; leaves entire, with small caducous stipules; flowers in 

 axillary racemes; sepals 4, corolla-like; stamens 4; ovary 1-celled, 

 style curved, with a 2-lobed or capitate stigma. - - Rivina 



R. humilis. Racemes peduncled, loosely flowered; calyx rose-colored, berries 

 mostly red. Summer. 



62. Allioniaceae (Nyctaginaceae), Four O'clock Family. 



Herbs or shrubs with alternate or opposite, exstipu- 

 late, simple leaves, and regular flowers, often subtended 

 by a conspicuous involucre; calyx usually corolla-like, 

 campanulate, trumpet-shaped or tubular; corolla want- 

 ing; stamens 1-many; ovary 1-celled, superior, surrounded 

 by the calyx- tube; style and stigma 1, ovary solitary. 



1. Herbs, 2 



1. Shrubs or climbers, cultivated; — the rather inconspicuous funnel- 



shaped flowers in threes, each subtended by a large colored bract. 



Bougainvillea 



B. glabra, glabrous with rose-red bracts, distinctly veined; — the variety San- 



deriana has the bracts deeper colored and smaller. 

 B. spectabilis (speciosa), hairy with deep rose to purple bracts; — the variety 

 lateritia has brick-red bracts. 



2. Stamens exserted; wild plants; — with petioled opposite leaves; flowers small 



with minute bracts; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed; stamens 1-5, 

 united at the base. Dry soil. Spring to Fall. - Boerhaavia 



B. hirsuta. Stem branched; leaves ovate, mucronate, ciliate; flowers pink or 

 purplish. 



