270 ' APETALEZ. 
ORDER XXXIV. 
JUGLANDEA. 
Included in the Terebinthacee, Juss. 
Cuaracters. — Trees, with impari-pinnate, alternate 
leaves destitute of stipules; flowers moncecious, males on 
an amentum; calyx in the female flowers superior, and of 
four divisions ; stamens 3 to 36, inferior ; ovary inferior ; 1- 
celled, 1-seeded, surmounted by the limb of the calyx and 
two stigmas; ovule ascending; pericarp a drupe, almost 
dry, or nut. 
Examrtes.— Walnut, (Juglans regia), Hiccory (Carya).. 
Economica Prorerties.—The Walnut is well known. 
The seed contains a considerable quantity of a thick oil; in 
some places used instead of olive oil. The outer parts of 
the fruit are said to contain tannin and gallic acid. 
ORDER XXXvV. 
CONIFER. 
Pinacee, Lindley. 
_ Cuaracters.—Trees or shrubs, with a resinous wood, 
harrow and linear leaves, sometimes solitary, sometimes 
fascieled, with a scarious sheath at the base ; flowers mo- 
heegioqus or diwcious, on an amentum ; stamens variable in 
‘number, sometimes one, occasionally at the base of a scale, 
other times naked, sometimes united by the filaments, at 
other times with sessile anthers ; female flowers solitary, or 0D 
oval amentum or cone, with the ovaries in the axille of — 
