28 POLYADELPHIA. 



To this Order belongs the tree which produces 

 the seed of which Chocolate is made. '^ 



ORDER 2. 



No British Phut of this Order. 

 icosAN'- THYME-LEAVED IVIELALEUCA is a native 

 " of New South Wales. It is rather a tender green- 



house plant, seldom kept long, but easily renewed 



Stamina nu- 

 merous, tlieir 



liiHrntntsbe- fj-Qm seed. The soil should be like that on which 



ing inserted, 



in several the heath kind are cultivated. The first representa- 



(arcels, into ■* 



t;ie Calyx. tion of this plant was published in the Linnsean Trans- 

 actions, 1797' 



ORDER 3. 



poLYAN- MARSH ST. JOHN'S-WORT. Of the Genus, 



1 ■ Hyperia/m, which is the only British genus of this 



stamina very Order, there are fifty-seven species, of which nine spe- 



numerous, ' J i ' a _ 



unconnected, cies grow wild in England. 1'his plant is produced in 

 Calyx. spongy bogs in several parts of England. It blossoms 



in July and August, but the flowers seldom expand, 



unless in bright sunshine. 



m Linnaeus named this plant Theobroma (celestial food) which 

 shews him to have been more fond of Chocolate than the Euro- 

 peans who first tasted it. Benzo, who made a voyage to 

 South America in 1541, calls it a mrji more fit for pigs than 

 for men. '* I loathed it," he says, ** for more th n a year," Lib. 

 ii.c. le. And Acosta says, that some persons who were not used 

 to Chocolate were disgusted at its appearance, and beseemed to 

 think, with good reason — ♦' Porque tiene una espuma arriba, 

 y un borbollon como de hezes, que cierto es mcnester mucho 

 crcdito para passar con cllo." Lib. iv. C. '22. 



