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Stamens inserted on the receptacle.

Leaves punctate with pellucid dots. Xanthoxylum, in RUTACEae, 106

Leaves not dotted.

Calyx present, and usually colored or petal-like.

RANUNCULACEae, 34

Calyx absent; flowers entirely naked, perfect, spiked.

PIPERACEae, 446

[*][*] _Pistil one, either simple or compound._

Ovary partly inferior, the calyx coherent to its lower half, 2-celled; styles 2; stamens many. HAMAMELIDEae, 179

Ovary wholly inferior (in perfect or pistillate flowers).

Aquatic herbs; ovary 3--4-celled, or (Hippuris) 1-celled.

HALORAGEae, 180

Mostly woody plants; style or stigma one, entire; ovary 1-celled.

Stigma running down one side of the style.

Nyssa, in CORNACEae, 215

Stigma terminal, with or without a style.

Parasitic on the branches of trees; anthers sessile.

LORANTHACEae, 449

Not parasitic above ground; anthers on filaments.

SANTALACEae, 450

Ovary really free from the calyx, but permanently invested by its tube, or the base of it, so as to seem inferior.

Shrubs, with scurfy leaves; flowers mostly dicious.

ELaeAGNACEae, 448

Herbs, with the calyx colored like a corolla.

Leaves opposite, simple. NYCTAGINACEae, 425

Leaves alternate, pinnate. Poterium, in ROSACEae, 161

Ovary plainly free from the calyx, which is sometimes wanting.

Stipules (ocreae) sheathing the stem at the nodes.

Tree; calyx none; flowers moncious, in heads. PLATANACEae, 466