116 DIDYNAMIA— ANGIOSPERMIA. Bartsia, 



Corolla of 1 petal, inferior, mostly irregular, segments im- 

 bricated in the bud, deciduous. 



Sta?ne?is generally 4, 2 longer and 2 shorter, rarely equal : 

 sometimes but 2. 



Germen with many seeds, in 2 cells ; style 1 ; stigma 2- 

 lobed ; rarely undivided. 



Capsule, (very rarely a Berry,) of 2 cells, with 2 or 4 valves, 

 which are either undivided or cloven ; the partition either 

 double, originating from the inflexed margins of the 

 valves ; or simple, either parallel to the valves and undi- 

 vided, or contrary to them and separable into 2 parts. 

 Receptacles central, attached to the partition, sometimes 

 separating finally from it. 



Seeds numerous, ali3uminous; the JEJwz^n/o internal, straight; 

 Radicle directed towards the scar. 



Herbs, sometimes shrubs, with for the most part opposite 

 leaves. Liflorescence various. Stipidas none. 



Mr. Brown justly reprehends Jussieu for making the di- 

 stinction of a parallel or transverse partition in the fruit 

 absohde, thus splitting one natural order into two. It is 

 like making a character "give a genus, not a genus a 

 character," one of the great causes of so many unnatural 

 genera in. Zoology as well as Botany. An American 

 writer has remarked also that " the recent custom among 

 Geologists, of cutting up and subdividing, seems to be 

 upon the point of ruining the simplicity of theWernerian 

 arrangement, as the same custom among Botanists has 

 already nearly ruined the Linnaean system of vegetables." 

 Van Rensselaer's Survey of the Erie Canal, p. 17. I hope 

 this last remark is not correctly true, and that such in- 

 judicious attempts will be resisted by those who possess 

 the talent of scientific combination ; which, in Natural 

 History, is full as necessary as that of observation and 

 discrimination, and much less common. 



303. BARTSIA. Bartsia. 



Linn. Gew. 303. Juss. \00. FL Br.647. 



Nat. Ord. Perso^iatce, Linn. 40. Pediculares. Juss, 35. Scro^ 

 phularince. Br. Prodr. 433. 



CaL tubular, more or less coloured ; the border in 4 acute, 

 nearly equal, segments. Cor. ringent, rather compressed; 

 tube short ; throat funnel-shaped ; upper lip longest^, 

 concave, undivided; lower reflexed, small, in 3 deep, 

 nearly equal lobes. Filam, thread-shaped, about the 



