302 FLORA OF TEXAS. 



filaments short; anthers intorse ; ovary crowned with an 

 epigynous disk, 2-15-celled, with a solitary suspended 

 ovule in each cell ; styles erect and connivent, or spread- 

 ing ; stigmas simple ; fruit drupaceous or baccate, some- 

 times nearly dry, but the carpels not separating; seeds 

 solitary in each cell, anatropous. 



AEALIA, L. 



Calyx-Wmb short, 5-toothed or entire ; petals 5, spread- 

 ing; stamens 5, alternate with petals; filaments short; 

 style 5, at length divaricate; dru2:)e baccate, 5-lobed, 

 5-celled, the endocarp chartaceous. — Shriths or herds; 

 leaves compound ; petioles sheathing at the base. 



A. RACEMOSA, L. (Spikenard.) Stem herbaceous, 

 smooth, leafy, divaricately branched ; leaves ternately and 

 quinately decompound ; leaflets cordate-ovate, acuminate, 

 doubly serrate, slightly pubescent ; timbels small, nu- 

 merous, disposed in large doubly-compound racemose 

 panicles ; involucre minute or almost none. — Gray and 

 Torrey, 



* Shrubbrj or arborescent, piickly. 



A. spiNOSA. Stem aborescent, prickly, as also the 

 petioles; Zefl?;es bipinnately compound ; leaflets OYate/acu- 

 minate, serrate, mostly glabrous, glaucous beneath; ^wi- 

 bels in very large and branched panicles, somewhat race- 

 mose on the branches ; involucre small and few-leaved. — 

 Gray and Torrey. 



61. DOGWOOD FAMILY. Order, Cornace^. 



Trees or shrubs, with simple, entire or rarely toothed 

 exstipulate leaves, and perfect or polygamous floicers; 

 calyx coherent with the 1-2-celled ovary, 4-5-toothed; 

 2)etals 4-5, valvate in the bud, sometimes wanting ; sta- 



