| MONOPETALEE—HYPOCOROLLEZ, 289° 
ORDER LI. 
PRIMULACE#, 
_ Cuaracters.—Herbaceous plants with the limbs of the 
calyx and corolla usually 5-cleft, stamens opposite the seg- 
ments of the corolla, and 5 in number; a 1-celled ovary, 
with numerous ovules on a free central placenta, 1 style, a 
capitate stigma, and a dehiscent capsule. 
Exampies.—Primrose (Primula vulgaris), Water Violet 
(Hottonia palustris), Sow-bread (Cyclamen europeum), which 
is eaten in Sicily by the wild boars: this plant is generally 
deemed an acrid poison. This family is interesting chiefly 
for the beauty of its flowers, which has rendered the Cow- 
slip (Primula veris) and Primrose such universal favourites. 
ORDER LIL 
GLOBULARINEZ. 
Cuaracters.—Tetrandrous plants, with a bilabiate co- 
rolla, a 1-celled, 1-seeded ovary, and an indehiscent peri- 
carp; inflorescence a capitulum. 
Exampue.—Blue Daisy (Globularia). The leaves of 
— Globularia alypum are bitter and acrid, and deemed purga- 
ORDER LIL 
_ OROBANCHEZ. 
