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BELLIPVEROUS. All these circumstances agreeing with the 
plant before us, we must look for it here; but observing that 
this subdivision of the Order is farther divided into Plants that 
have the Involucrum both general and partial ; into plants with 
the Involucrum only partial ; and into plants without any Invo- 
lucrum ; we examine the specimen, and find an Involucrum to 
each Uumbel or Rundle, and likewi ise an Involucellum to each 
Umbellule, or Rundlet. The unequal size of the Petals; the 
winged Involucrum, and the prickly Seeds, agreeing with 
‘Daucus, we turn to that Genus. Finding our plant agree with- 
the Generic description, we readily know it to be the Daucus 
Carota, or Wild Carrot. 
EXAMPLE VII. 
» GALAN'T HUS, (Snow-drop ds 
* ‘The ye gros not frequent in a wild state, is to 
be found in almost every garden, and is among the first of our 
spring flowers, When we look at it attentively, the first cir- 
cumstance which strikes us is the want of a Cup, but instead 
of that we find upon the fruit-stalk, a sheathing substance, 
which covered the blofsom in its infant state. The 6 Stamens 
direct us to the Hexandria Clafs, and the single Pistil fixes us 
to the first Order of that Clafs. This Order is pea 
into, 
(1.) Flowers with a Cup and a Blofsom. 
(2.) Flowers with a Sheath or Husk. : Sis GM x 
(3.) Flowers naked. +:: j a 
-(4.) Flowers without Petals. 
The want of a cup, and the presence of the sheath, Shai us 
to expect it in the 2d.subdivision, which contains 4 Genera. 
In the Allium the blofsom is fixed beneath the Germen, but in 
our plant it is above it. In the Narcifsus there is a bell-shaped 
-nectary and 6 petals, but our plant has 6 petals only, and no 
such bell-shaped nectary. The circumstance of 3 inner petals, 
shorter and notched at the end, is sufficiently observable in 
our plant, and clearly distinguish it from the Leucojum ; so ; 
that it can be no other than: a ‘Galanthus, Bs ie yeneric 
