1. C. mínimus, L. Stems ascending (2–6´ long); leaves ovate, obovate or spatulate-oblong; flowers nearly sessile, the parts mostly in fours.—Low grounds, from Ill. and Minn, to Fla. and Tex., and westward. (Eu.)
11. SÁMOLUS, Tourn. Water Pimpernel. Brook-weed.
Calyx 5-cleft; the tube adherent to the base of the ovary. Corolla somewhat bell-shaped, 5-cleft, commonly with 5 sterile filaments in the sinuses. True stamens 5, on the corolla-tube, included. Capsule globose, 5-valved at the summit, many-seeded.—Smooth herbs, with alternate entire leaves, and small white racemed flowers. ("According to Pliny, an ancient Druidical name.")
1. S. Valerándi, L. Stem erect (6–12´ high), leafy; leaves obovate or spatulate, the basal rosulate; bracts none; slender pedicels ascending, bracteolate in the middle. (Eu.)—Var. Americànus, Gray. More slender, becoming diffuse; racemes often panicled, the pedicels longer and spreading.—Wet places, through the U. S. June–Sept.
Order 62. SAPOTÀCEÆ. (Sapodilla Family.)
Trees or shrubs, mostly with a milky juice, simple and entire alternate leaves (often rusty-downy beneath), small and perfect regular flowers usually in axillary clusters; the calyx free and persistent; the fertile stamens commonly as many as the lobes of the hypogynous short corolla and opposite them, inserted on its tube, along with one or more rows of appendages and scales (or sterile stamens); anthers turned outward; ovary 4–12-celled, with a single anatropous ovule in each cell; seeds large.—Albumen mostly none; but the large embryo with thickened cotyledons. Style single, pointed.—A small, mostly tropical order, producing the Sapodilla or Star-apple, and some other edible fruits.
1. BUMÈLIA, Swartz.
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla 5-cleft, with a pair of internal appendages at each sinus. Fertile stamens 5; anthers arrow-shaped. Sterile stamens 5, petal-like, alternate with the lobes of the corolla. Ovary 5-celled. Fruit small, resembling a cherry, black, containing a large ovoid and erect seed, with a roundish scar at its base.—Flowers small, white, in fascicles from the axils of the leaves. Branches often spiny. Leaves often fascicled on short spurs. Wood very hard. (The ancient name of a kind of Ash.)
1. B. lycioìdes, Pers. (Southern Buckthorn.) Spiny (10–25° high); leaves wedge-oblong varying to oval-lanceolate, with a tapering base, often acute, reticulated, nearly glabrous (2–4´ long); clusters densely many-flowered, glabrous, fruit ovoid.—Moist ground, Va. to S. Ill., Fla., and Tex. May, June.
2. B. lanuginòsa, Pers. Spiny (10–40° high); leaves oblong-obovate or wedge-obovate, rusty-woolly beneath, obtuse (1½–3´ long); clusters 6–12-flowered, pubescent; fruit globular.—Woods, S. Ill. to Fla. and Tex. July.