CLASS XIV. 







2 LONG AND 2 SHORT. 



This Class has two Orders. 



This Class contains most of the labiate, ringent, of 

 personate flowers, as the Bairn, Dead-nettle, Snap- 

 dragon, Fox-glove, &c. 



The Orders of this Class are named after the man- 

 ner of producing their seeds. The first Order pro- 

 duces naked seeds at the bottom of a Calyx, usually 

 four in number. The second Order produces seeds in 

 a pod or capsule. a 



GROUND-IVY is common in dry groves, about 

 hedge banks, under park walls or pales, and similar 

 situations, where it puts out its fragrant foliage on the 

 first approach of spring, and blossoms in April and 

 May. 



In Chili there is a plant of this Class and Order, 

 called Saline Basil, which, although growing sixty miles 

 from the sea, yet every morning it is covered with sa- 

 line globules, which are hard and splendid, appearing 

 at a distance like dew; each plant furnishes about 

 an ounce of fine salt every day, which the peasants 



a The plants that produce naked seeds are generally aroma- 

 tic, whilst those of the second order of this class producing 

 th-ir seeds in a pod, are of a poisonous nature. 



