CAPPARIS SPINOSA. 
Stamens. Six—twelve, or some multiple of four, almost perigy- 
nous. Torus small, often elongated, bearing a single 
gland. 
Ovary often stipitate, of two united carpels. Styles, united into 
one. Stigma, discoid. 
Fruit, either pod-shaped and dehiscent or fleshy, and indehis- 
cent. Placenta, usually two. 
SEeps many, reniform. Albumen wanting. Embryo curved. 
Cotyledons foliaceous. 
THE SECONDARY CHARACTERS, 
Carparis. Calyx. Sepals, four-parted, spreading oblong, 
obtuse, concave, imbricated. Petals, four, large, white, emargi- 
nate, downy at the base. Stamens numerous, hypogynous, 
Ovary, oblong, one-celled. Stigma, round sessile, concave, 
entire. Fruit, oblong, knotty. Seeds, reniform, smooth. 
Calyx four-parted- Petals four, Torus small. Stipes of the ovary slender. 
Stamens numerous. Fruit siliquose, somewhat bacoate, stipitate. 
THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Capraris Spivosa. Peduncle, simple, one flowered, solitary. 
Stipules, spiny. Leaves roundish, obtuse, smooth. Capsules 
oval, 
Siem trailing, smooth. Leaves ovate, quite smooth. Flowers auxillary, with 
slender peduncles much longer than the petioles. 
THE ARTIFICIAL CHARACTERS. 
Cuass Poryanpria. Stamens, twenty or more arising from the 
receptacle (hypogynous.) Orper Monoeynia. Rocks, walls and 
cliffs, in the most southern parts of Europe, and in the Levant. 
NATURAL HISTORY. 
We are happy in having it in our power to give a representa- 
_ tion of the Caper shrub, whose blossoms are rarely seen in this 
_ country, though its flower buds are in very general use as a 
_ Pickle, indeed, so great is their consumption that they furm a 
_ very considerable article of commerce. It is a biennial plant 
growing wild in some parts of the United States and believed to 
