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PENTANDRIA. 
G. Fruit thin and almost fiat , compressed transversely, without dorsal 
wings. 
Peuced'anum. Seeds broadly elliptical, with a notch at each end, a 
little convex, with three slightly prominent ribs; interstices 
striated; border narrow, flat, even, smooth, and entire: Cal. 
pointed, ascending: Pet. inversely heart-shaped, all very nearly 
equal: FI. Recept. none: FI. regular, imperfectly separated. 
Pastina'ca. Seeds elliptic-obovate, with a slight notch at the sum¬ 
mit, very nearly flat, with three dorsal ribs and two marginal 
ones ; border narrow, flat, thin, even, smooth, and entire : Cal. 
very minute, obsolete : Pet. broadly lanceolate, involute, equal: 
FI. Recept. broad, orbicular, wavy, rather thin, concealing the 
calyx: FI. regular, uniform, perfect. 
Herac'leum. Seeds inversely heart-shaped, with a notch at the sum¬ 
mit, very nearly flat, with three slender dorsal ribs, two distant 
marginal ones, and four intermediate, coloured, depressed, ab¬ 
rupt lines from the top; border narrow, slightly tumid, smooth, 
even and entire: Cal. of five small, acute, evanescent teeth: 
Pet. inversely heart-shaped, radiant: FI. Recept. wavy, crenate, 
obtuse: FI. separated. 
Tordyl'ium. Seeds orbicular, nearly flat, roughish, without ribs; 
border tumid, wrinkled or crenate, naked or bristly: Cal. of five 
awl-shaped, unequal teeth: Pet. inversely heart-shaped, radiant, 
variously unequal and irregular: FI. Recept . none: FI. sepa¬ 
rated. E.) 
TRIGYNIA. 
(1) Flowers above the germen. 
VIBUR'NUM. JBloss. five-cleft: -Berry one-seeded. 
SAMBU'CUS. Bloss. five-cleft: Berry three-seeded. 
(2) Flowers beneath the germen. 
CORRIGFOLA. Bloss. five-petals : Cal. with five divisions : 
Seed one, triangular. 
STAPHYLE'A. Caps, with two or three-clefts; inflated: 
Bloss. five petals. 
TAM'ARIX. Caps, one-celled : Seed crowned with a downy 
feather: Bloss. five petals. 
[Montia fontana. Arenaria ruhra and marina. Salsola fructi- 
cosa and Kali. Plolosteum umbellatum. Chenopodium mariti- 
mum. Quercus.] 
