celled. Style and stigma 1. Legumen 2-valved, dehiscent, or indehiscent. Seeds with or without albumen, upon a marginal receptacle. Embryo with the radicle recurved upon the cotyledons, which are long and thick. Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, mostly compound and pinnated, with or without tendrils, stipuled. They possess very various principles and properties, and many of the plants composing this order are of the greatest service in the Arts, in Medicine, and domestic œconomy. Their seeds afford food for man and various animals, their herbage for cattle.) Ulex, &c. p. 318.-LIII. RHAMNEÆ. (fruit of some, purgative and affording dyes;-of the Jujube, nutritive; the bark of others is astringent.) Rhamnus.-LIV. CELASTRINEE. Euonymus, Ilex, Staphylea. SECT. III. Cor. polypetalous, hypogynous, (inserted under the germen or ovary.) LV. HYPERICINEÆ. (aromatic and resinous, juice sometimes purgative.) Hypericum.-LVI. ACERINEÆ. Acer.-LVII. TILIACEÆ. Tilia.-LVIII. MALVACEE. (Cal. 5-cleft, calyculate. Cor. of 5 petals, regular. Stam. indefinite, monadelphous, often united with the petals at their base. Anthers reniform, I-celled. Ovary 1. Styles single or several combined. Stigmas several. Fruit of many cells and many valves, or of many capsules, which are dehiscent or indehiscent, inserted into a compact body, or placed in a whorl, round the base of the style. Seeds solitary, ascending. Albumen mucilaginous, not abundant. Embryo curved. Cotyledons foliaceous, plaited. Herbs, or shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, with stipules. Flowers axillary. They abound in mucilage, especially the seeds. The stems and roots afford an excellent fibre.) Lavatera, Malva, Althæa.-LIX. GERANIACEÆ. Geranium, Erodium.-LX. OXALIDEE (producing oxalic acid). Oxalis. -LXI. BALSAMINEÆ. Impatiens.—LXII. LINEÆ, (whose stems contain flax). Linum, Radiola.-LXIII. CARYOPHYLLEE. Buffonia, Monchia, Sagina, Holosteum, Elatine, Saponaria, &c. p. 199.-LXIV. FRANKENIACEAE. Frankenia.-LXV. DROSERACEE. Drosera, Parnassia.-LXVI. RESEDACEÆ. Reseda.-LXVII. CISTEÆ. Helianthemum.-LXVIII. VIOLARIÆ. Viola.-LXIX. POLYGALEÆ. Polygala.-LXX. CRUCIFERÆ. (Cal. of 4 leaves. Pet. 4. Stam. 6. tetradynamous, alternate with the petals; 2 solitary, 4 in 2 pairs. Ovary and style 1, hypogynous glands at the base of the stamens. Pericarp, (a pouch or pod,) 2-celled, 2-valved, many-seeded. Dissepiment parallel with the valves. Seeds on a marginal receptacle, without albumen. Radicle curved upwards towards the margins of the cotyledons (o =), or against the back of one of them (o ), opposite to the hilum. Herbs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in corymbs or racemes. A most important Nat. Order, many of the plants which it includes being cultivated as esculent; the cabbage, turnep, mustard, and cress of various kinds, horse-radish, &c. &c. They contain an essential oil, which renders them stimulating, while the seeds yield a fine and mild oleaginous fluid, as rape; and they are antiscorbutic. The mustard-seed is used for sinapisms. Several kinds contain sulphur and nitrogen, the basis of Ammonia) Cakile, &c. p. 293.-LXXI. FUMARIA. Fumaria, Corydalis.-LXXII. PAPAVERACEE. (Cal. of 2, deciduous leaves. Cor. of 4-8 petals. Stam. indefinite. Ovary 1. Stigma lobed. Capsule 1-celled, many-seeded. Seeds upon parietal receptacles, which form incomplete dissepiments. Embryo in the base of a fleshy albumen. Herbaceous plants, with alternate leaves. Opium is the product of these plants, which largely afford a milky acrid and narcotic juice; while the seeds of all, except Argemone mexicana, are mild and oleaginous.) Papaver, &c. p. 256.—LXXIII. NYMPHEACEE. Nymphæa, Nuphar.— LXXIV. BERBERIDEÆ. Berberis, Epimedium.-LXXV. RANUNCULACEÆ. (Cal. of mostly 5, rarely 3 or 6 leaves. Pet. definite or indefinite, sometimes wanting. Anthers adnate, mostly reversed. Ovaries 1, or many, l-or many-celled. Fruit consisting of several l-seeded carpels, rarely a berry, sometimes follicled. Embryo straight, placed in the base of a horny albumen. Herbaceous or shrubby. Leaves simple or divided, with more or less dilated stalks. Acrid and poisonous.) Actæa, Myosurus, Pæonia, &c. p. 260. Thalictrum, &c. p. 262. CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Page. 17, line 9. Omit entirely" Crocus reticulatus." I have, since the account of it was printed, received specimens with the roots, from which it is evident that it is the C. minimus of Redouté. Insert therefore"C. minimus, Red. (least Crocus); stigma erect within the flower in 3 linear-clavate jagged segments longer than the stamens, throat of the corolla naked, leaves linear-filiform, coats of the bulb membranaceous, Redouté Pl. Lil. v. t. ii. 81. (not Sm.)." In Sir Henry Bunbury's park, at Barton, Suffolk, along with C. luteus ; certainly not wild. Fl. March. 24. 32, 1. 4 from the bottom; for " αυρός, "read aygos. 39, bottom line; for "P. verticillatum," read S. verticillatus. 49, 1. 11 from the bottom; for "B. squamosus," read-B. squarrosus. 62, bottom line; before "leaves downy," insert-" ß.” 69, 1. 3, add-Nat. Ord. CAPRIFOLIA CE. Juss. 70, 1. 11 from the bottom, for "SALICARIE. Juss." read-ONAGRARIÆ. Juss. 95, between sp. 2 and 3, insert "V. thapsiforme, Schrad." stem simple, leaves lanceolato-ovate, raceme spiked dense, bracteæ longer than the woolly calyx, segments of the corolla obovate rounded, two anthers oblong, D ̊C." Lindl. Syn. p. 181. "V. thapsoides, Willd." "By road-sides in Kent. Fl. July, Aug. ♂." (Lindl.) 96, 1. 9, for 2-3 cells, read 1-3 cells. 1. 13. from the bottom; omit " Capsules of 3-4 cells, less frequently of 2, never of 1. (Mr. James Wilson)," and insert-Capsules 1-celled.—Mr. James Wilson is now sensible that he was under a mistake in considering the capsules to be 3-4 celled: they are truly 1-celled, as described by Mr. Brown. 111, 1. 20, for "Ben Nevis," read-Ben Lawers. 114, 1. 16, for "D. maritima," read-D. maritimus. 123, 1. 5, for " "read-on. 134, 1. 13, for "Rev. Mr. Tozer," read-Rev. Mr. Bree. 171, 1. 5, for "JUNCEÆ," read-JUNCAGINEÆ. Rich. 187, add as Synonyms to n. 4. Pyrola media.-Engl. Bot. t. 1945. Hook. in Fl. Lond. t. 30. Hook. Scot. i. p. 127. Engl. Fl. v. ii. p. 256. 210, add as Synonyms. Engl. Bot. t. 1946. Engl. Fl. v. ii. p. 318. 301, 1. 24, for "Coral-root," read-Tooth-root. G. 313, 1. 1, after "the B. of Smith," insert-( G. Raii, Lindl. Syn. p. 57.) 311, between 1. 16 and 17, insert-6. smaller, petals with purplish veins. sanguineum, y. Sm.-G. lancastriense, With.-G.`prostratum, Cav.— Lindl. Syn. p. 258. 333, last line, for M. runcinata," read-M. muricata. 355, 1. 4, for "Gen. 27–55," read-Gen. 27-47. 358, 1. 13 from the bottom, for "Gen. 31-55," read-Gen. 31–47. 389, 1. 18, for "this plant distinct," read-" this plant not distinct." 409, 1. 28, after "There is a var. of this tree,” add—(B. pendula, Roth.— Lindl. Syn. p. 229.) |