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POPULAR FLORA. 
34. CAROLINA- ALLSPICE FAMILY. Order CALYCANTHACE^E. 
A small family of a few rather curious shrubs, with opposite leaves ; represented by the 
Carolina-Allspice. Calycanihus . 
Flowers somewhat on the plan of the rose, having a large 
number of simple pistils contained in a sort of closed calyx-cup, 
or hollow receptacle, and attached to its inner surface. But the 
outside is covered with sepals or calyx-lobes, which are colored 
like the petals (brown-purple); these are many and narrow, in 
several rows. Stamens many, on the top of 
the cup ; filaments hardly any ; anthers long, 
tipped with a point. Ovaries making large 
akenes, enclosed in the large and dry hip. 
Seed-leaves of the embryo rolled up. Shrubs, 
with rather aromatic bark, &c., and opposite 
entire leaves, without any stipules. Flowers 
large, when bruised giving out a fragrance 
resembling that of strawberries. Wild in the 
Southern States, especially in and near the 
mountains ; and also cultivated, especially the 
first species. 
362. Flowering branch of Carolina Allspice. 363. Half of 
a calyx-cup of the same, cut through lengthwise. (Compare 
it with a Rose, Fig. 360.) 364. A ripe fruit or hip. 
1. Common C. Leaves oval or roundish, downy beneath. Commonly cult, in gardens. C.floridus . 
2. Smooth C. Leaves oblong, smooth, green both sides; flowers smaller. C . lazvigcitus . 
3. Glaucous C. Leaves oblong- or lance-ovate, pointed, glaucous or whitened beneath. C. glaucus . 
35. LYTHEUM FAMILY. Order LYTHRACEiE. 
Herbs with entire and mostly opposite leaves, and no stipules ; the calyx tubular or cup- 
shaped, bearing from 4 to 7 petals and 4 to 14 stamens on its throat, and enclosing the 
many-seeded ovary and thin pod. Between the 4 to 7 teeth of the calyx are as many 
additional projections or supernumerary teeth. Style one. 
Flowers regular, or nearly so. 
Calyx cylindrical, several-ribbed or angled: petals 4 to 7, rather unequal: stamens 
twice as many as the petals : pod 2-celled, ( Lythrum ) Lythrum.^ 
Calyx short bell-shaped: petals 5: stamens 10 or 14, long and protruded: pod with 
3 to 5 cells: leaves often whorled, ( Nescea ) Nescea. 
Flowers with an irregular tubular calyx, spurred or projecting at the base on the upper 
side. Very unequal petals, and 12 unequal stamens in two sets. Pod few-seeded, 
bursting through one side of the calyx, ( Ciiphea) Cuphea. 
* Sometimes called Loosestrife / but this name properly belongs to plants of another family. 
