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SEQUENCE OF ORDERS CONTAINED IN VOLUME IIL. 
WITH BRIEF CHARACTERS. 
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Continuation of Sub-Class II. Canycirrtorm. Ord. LX XITI-LXX VIL 
LXXII. RUBIACES (page 1). Cal. adnate. Cor. monopetalous, epigynous, 
4-6-lobed, regular. Stam. 4-6, on the cor. tube, and alternate with its lobes. 
* Ovary inferior, of 2 or several cells; ovules solitary or many; style simple, 
rarely bifid. Fruit a capsule, berry or drupe, or a pair of dry nuts; seeds 
albuminous. (Leaves opposite, quite entire, with interpétiolar stipules. Trees, 
shrubs, or herbs. ) 
LXXIV. VALERIANEA (page 39). Cal. adnate. Cor. tubular, epigynous, 
5-3-4-lobed, unequal; lobes imbricate in bud, Stam. 1-5, on the cor. tube. 
Ovary inferior, 1-3-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit 1-seeded, dry ; seed 
pendulous, without albumen. (Leaves opposite, often cut or lobed, without sti- 
pules. Fl, eymose.) : 
LXXV. DIPSACEZ: (page 41). Fl. in heads on a common receptacle, girt by a 
general involucre; each fl. also seated in a cup-like, dry, persistent involucre. 
Cor. epigynous, tubular; limb oblique, 4—5-lobed, imbricate in bud. Stam. 4, 
on the cor, tube, 2 mostly longer ; fil. exserted; anth. distinct. Ovary inferior, 
r-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit dry, enclosed in the involucel, 
1-seeded ; seed albuminous. (Leaves opposite or whorled, often much divided, 
without stipules. ) 
LXXVI. COMPOSITA (page 44). FJ. in heads on a common receptacle, girt by 
a general involucre, no involucel. Cor. epigynous, tubular, valvate in bud. 
Anth. syngenesious. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovule solitary, erect. Fruit a dry 
achene; seed exalbuminous. (A vast family, much diversified ; see the detailed 
__ observations given at p. 45.) — | 
AMPANULACES | 530). Cal. tube adnate ; limb 3-10-lobed 
or subtruncate. - Cor. monop-talous (rarely cleft to the base); the lobes valvate 
or induplicate in bud. Stam. mostly epigynous, very rarely on the cor. tube 
anth. separate or syngenesious. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 2-10-celled ; 
ovules mostly numerous, rarely few or solitary. Fruit a capsule or berry, 
rarely a drupe. (Juice often acrid-milky. Lvs. mostly alternate, without stipules. 
Fi. regular or irregular, in racemes or panicles, or solitary.) 
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