BOTANICAL SYSTEM OF PROFESSOR PERLEB. 333 



CoRNALES. — Perleb includes under Umbraculari^ Batsch. 

 c. add. Ph,, U7nbellifer(B, Araliacece, Cornece, Loranthece, 

 II Rhizoplioreae, ? WHamamelidecB, ? || Alangiese. 



Geraniales. — Under Sarmentace^ Vent, c. add. Ph., 

 Perleb gives Viniferae, Oxalidece, Lineae, Geraniacece, Hydro- 

 cere(Bj BalsaminecB. — Burmeister properly adds TropcBolece. 



Brassicales. — The Cruciflor.e of Perleb are Cruciferce, 

 CapparidecB, FumariacecB, Papaveracece. 



NYMPH.EALES. — Perleb in adjusting the characters of 

 MuLTisiLiQUOS^, gives the following (unnamed) as " herbse 

 aquaticae, palustres :" — ? || Sarraceniaceae, Nyniph(Bace(B, Ne- 

 himbonecB, \\ Cabomhece, PodopltyllecB, To these are added, 

 without arrangement, the Menispermales, mixed with Ranun- 

 culaceae, Magnoliaceae, and Dilleniaceae. 



Agrostidales. — The arrangement of the characters of 

 Perleb's Glumace^, throws together (unnamed) Cyperace<B, 

 Graminece, " Staminibus pistillo non junctis, perigonio glu- 

 maceo, plantae culmiferae pique, herbaceae, fol. alt. simpl. in- 

 tegerr. parallelinerv. vaginant., ovar. — 1-ovulat., ovariis solita- 

 riis." — Burmeister's Monospermy (bracteatae glumaceae) take 

 the same range. 



Arecales. — Perleb adopts the Palm^e of Linnaeus, divid- 

 ing them into six families. Linnaeus left the Palms as a 

 natural group, which he was unable to distribute under his 

 artificial system ; Botany would have presented a very dif- 

 ferent aspect, had he, on the contrary, delivered his artificial 

 system as a supplement to contain plants, which he could 

 not form into such natural groups as the Labiatae, Cruciferae, 

 Umbelliferae, Leguminosae, &c. 



Typhales. — Perleb includes under Spadicin^ Ag. c. add. 

 Ph., \\Phytelephante(B, PandanecB, Typhace(B, \\Acoroide(B, 

 Cyclanthece, Aroidece, Naiades (IJCallitrichineae, jjHippurideae, 

 IJCeratophylleae, \\NaiadecB, \\Lemnace<B) : " Staminibus cum 

 pistillo non junctis, perigonio nullo vel squamaeformi." — The 

 Spadicinje Fluviales of Burmeister are Aroidece [Acorus], 

 TyphoidecB, Potamophil(B, Lemnaceae. 



Race of the Fungi. 



Auriculariales. — Perleb adopts the Hymenomycetes 

 Fr. (olim). Fries, in his 'Epicrisis,' 1838, removes theElvel- 

 laceae, under the name of Discomycetes, from this alliance, 

 and stations them next to Pyrenomycetes. — ^Von Martins 

 opens his system with the Algae, and terminates it with the 

 Fungi, as Vegetatio secundaria. 



Lycoperdales. — Perleb, for the purpose of distinguishing 



