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There is a superstitious opinion prevails concerning 

 the efficacy of the root of this plant to facilitate the 

 growth of children's teeth : bits of it are dried and 

 rubbed smooth, and strung and sold by the name of 

 Anodyne Necklaces, and the seeds are sometimes 

 employed for the same purpose. 



This is the only plant that can be supposed to be 

 english that has been arranged under this Order. 



ORDER 3, 



No British Plant of this Order. 



TEA TREE. This plant has been placed by trigynia. 

 Linnaeus in the first Order of this Class, from consi- Three ria. 

 dering the styles as united^ but on consulting the best ''^'^* 

 botanists of our time, I find it is now thought to be 

 indifferent whether it be placed in the first, or the third 

 Order J I have therefore chosen the latter j since it 

 appears, from the best figures of the flower, and the 

 most authentic descriptions of it, that as the seeds ad- 

 vance to maturity the styles separate from each other 

 down to the Germen (as in fig. 2), and wither upon 

 it after the petals and stamina have fallen off 3 and 

 that although they are united in an early state, and per- 

 haps in some degree cohere, (as in fig. l) it seems 

 evident that they have their constituent parts distinct ; 

 and as Linnaeus, in the nineteenth Class of his Sys- 



