CLASS VII. 



SEVEN STAMINA. 



This Class has four Orders. 



CHICK-WEED WINTER-GREEN, is found 

 in dry woods and turfy heaths in the north of Eng- 

 land, but more particularly in Scotland. It is a plant 

 chiefly confined to the most northern regions. I have, 

 however, seen it grow very flourishingly in a garden 

 at Clapham. 



Linnaeus was exceedingly delighted when he dis- 

 covered it in his Lapland tour, probably from its being 

 the only Lapland genus of the seventh class serving to 

 complete the uniformity of his system. This is a very 

 small class, and this Chick-weed is the only indigenous 

 plant we have in it. The Horse-chesnut tree is also of 

 this class; though now common throughout England, 

 is a native of Mount Pindus, in Greece. 



Of the second order of this class, which has two 

 Stamina, there is no figure extant. 



LIZARD'S TAIL. This plant is a native of Vir- 

 ginia; it is perennial, generally trailing, and seldom 

 rising more than two feet high. It blossoms in July, 

 but does not produce seed in England. The stalk de- 

 cays in the autumn. 



