■46 TETRANDRIA. 



he beareth to mankind, bit it off, because it would be 

 otherwise good for many uses." 



British Plants of this Orde 



Botanical Generic Names- Common Names. 



4 Alchemilla 2 Ladies mantle 



11 asperula 2 woodroof 



1 Centunculus l Chaff-weed 



i2 Cornus a Dogberry tree 



4 Dips ac us 3 Teasel 



l Exacum i March centory 



48 Galium 14 Goosegrass 



38 Plantago 5 Plantain 



7 Rupia i Dyers Madder 



3 Sanguisorna l Wild Burnet 



43SCABIOSA 3 DtVIL's-IilT SCABIOUS 



3 Sherardia i Little Field-maddeh 



ORDER 2. 



digynia. SLENDER BUFFONIA blossoms in May and 

 June: it was first noticed in England by Ray/i It 



Two Pistilla. ° J J 



9 John Ray was the son of a blacksmith, born at Black 

 Notley, near In ltree, in Essex, November 28, 1628, and 

 educated at Cambridge. He early applied himself to the study 

 of Natural History, in 16&2, he suggested an idea, or plan of 

 arrangement of Vegetables superior to any then known ; and 

 in 1686, he published a General History of Plants, in which 



