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ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE NATURAL ORDERS. 



Petals usually four (rarely three or six, occasionally absent), and the 

 stamens as many, or twice as many, inserted into the throat of the 

 calyx. Ovary commonly four-celled : styles united. Fruit mostly 

 capsular. — Ex. Chiefly an American order ; many are ornamental 

 in cultivation. Fuchsia, remarkable for its colored calyx and ber- 

 ried fruit ; Qilnothera (Evening Primrose) ; Epilobium, where the 

 seeds bear a coma ; Ludwigia, wliich is sometimes apetalous ; and 

 Circtea, where the lobes of the calyx, petals, stamens, cells of the 

 ovary, and the seeds, are reduced to two ; showing a connection with 

 the appended 



822. Suboi'd. IlalorageiE, which are a sort of reduced aquatic Ona- 

 graceae, often apetalous : the solitary seeds commonly furnished with 

 albumen. — Ex. Myriophyllum (Water-Milfoil) and Ilippuris (Horse- 

 tail), where the limb of the calyx is almost wanting ; the petals 

 none ; the stamens reduced to a single one, and the ovary to a single 

 cell, with a solitary seed. 



837 



836 



830 



834 



835 



833 



832 



831 



823. Ord. GroSSUlacetC ( Gooseberry Family ). Small shrubs, either 

 spiny or prickly, or unarmed ; with alternate, palmately lobed and 



FIG. 830. The cultivated Gooseberry ; a branch in flower. 831. Branch in fruit 832 

 The calyx, hearing the petals anil stamens, cut away from the summit of the ovary (8.33), and 

 laid open. 83i, 835. Sections of the unripe fruit. 83G. Jl.agnified seed, with a conspicuous 

 rliaphe. 837. Longitudinal section of the same, showiug the minute embryo at the extrem- 

 ity of the albumeu. 



