. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 159 representative of the family in the United States, occurring in the Ever- glades of Florida. Family Stackhousiaceae. Stackhousia Family. Consists of a sin- gle genus, vidth about 20 species, all herbs, natives of Australia and New Zealaind. They have flowers with unequal stamens, and with the petals slightly united into a tube, but possess no features of especial interest. Family Staphyleaceae. Bladdernut Family. Trees and shrubs, comprised in 5 genera and about 25 species, widely distributed. They have t
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS 159 representative of the family in the United States, occurring in the Ever- glades of Florida. Family Stackhousiaceae. Stackhousia Family. Consists of a sin- gle genus, vidth about 20 species, all herbs, natives of Australia and New Zealaind. They have flowers with unequal stamens, and with the petals slightly united into a tube, but possess no features of especial interest. Family Staphyleaceae. Bladdernut Family. Trees and shrubs, comprised in 5 genera and about 25 species, widely distributed. They have the leaves pinnate or in threes, with regular perfect flowers in axillary or terminal clusters, the parts in fives. The interesting struc- tural character is found ia the fruit, which is an inflated capsule in Staphylea, the bladdernut, a rather ornamental shrub, having creamy flowers and curious bladdery pods (see Fig. 138). Family Icacinaceae. Icaco Fam- ily. Contains about 40 genera and nearly 100 species, tropical trees or shrubs. They are close in structure to the Aquifoliaceae, but are often remarkable for the woolly flowers, one of which, of the genus PJiytocrene, is shown in Fig. 136. The South American Villaresia Congonha, be- longing to this family, yields a tea similar to the true mate described above. Family Aceraceae. Maple Fam- ily. Consists of Acer, the maples, with about 100 species, and Dipter- onia, a monotypic genus of Asia, which differs in having the fruits winged on the whole circumference. The maples are a most interest- ing group of trees, and the different species have a very marked individuality. They are grouped accord- ing to the flawers, which may be in dense axillary clusters, like those of the red, or soft, and silver maples, which open before the leaves; in lateral flat-topped clusters or corymbs, often drooping, like those of the sugar maple, which open with the leaves; or they may be in long spikes or racemes opening after the leaves, as in the
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