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Three-nine-celled ovary; leaves heath-like. EMPETRACEae, 487
Three-celled ovary; leaves broad. RHAMNACEae, 111
One--two-celled ovary; styles or stigmas 2-cleft.
URTICACEae, 461
One-celled ovary; style and stigma single and entire.
Anthers opening longitudinally. THYMELaeACEae, 448
Anthers opening by uplifted valves. LAURACEae, 446
[B.] _Flowers moncious or dicious, one or both sorts in catkins._
[1.] _Only one sort of flowers in catkins or catkin-like heads._
Fertile flowers in a short catkin, head, or strobile. URTICACEae, 461
Fertile flowers single or cl.u.s.tered; sterile in slender catkins (except in f.a.gus).
Leaves pinnate; fertile flowers and fruit naked. JUGLANDACEae, 467
Leaves simple; fertile flowers 1--3 in an involucre or cup.
CUPULIFERae, 470
[2.] _Both sterile and fertile flowers in catkins or catkin-like heads._
Ovary and pod 2-celled, many-seeded. Liquidambar, in HAMAMELIDEae, 180
Ovary and pod 1-celled, many-seeded; seeds furnished with a downy tuft at one end. SALICACEae, 480
Ovary 1--2-celled, only one ovule in each cell; fruit 1-seeded.
Parasitic on trees; fruit a berry. LORANTHACEae, 449
Trees or shrubs, not parasitic.
Calyx regular, in the fertile flower succulent in fruit.
URTICACEae, 461
Calyx none, or rudimentary and scale-like.
Style and stigma one, simple; the flowers in heads.
PLATANACEae, 466
Styles or long stigmas 2.
Fertile flowers 2 or 3 at each scale of the catkin.
CUPULIFERae, 470