50 FLOR. TELL 



paniculalis trichotomis albis. — East Indies. 

 The G. Exaciim is thus nearly as loose as Gen- 

 tiana, I shall return to it with Sebaea of So- 

 lantler. 



In this Centuria I have chiefly attended to 

 settle or reform the natural families of which 

 Linum, Amaranthus, Atriplex, Polygonum, Ur- 

 tica, Drosera &c were the main types, with 

 several akin Genera and families. By this la- 

 bor it will be seen how utterly inconsistent was 

 even Jussieu in framing his families or refering 

 Genera to them, whereby it was almost impos- 

 sible to separate them by any definite character. 

 The later writers had done no better ; but now 

 I hope that it will be easy to know each family 

 and refer genera to them by something definite 

 and tangible. It is in this manner that all na- 

 tural families ought to be revised, ascertained 

 and ultimately settled. 



CENTURIA VII. 



1 shall here resume again the beautiful tribe 

 of Asphodelides and akin, begun in the first 

 Centuria, and shall quote the very words of 

 Lindley on that score — " In tribes of plants so 

 simple in structure as Asphodelea, like Umbel- 

 lifera and Crucifera, it is indispensable that 

 Genera should be confined within most exact 

 limits, and it is far better that this should be ef- 

 fected by the creation of many new Genera, 

 than that it should not be done at all. Lindley 

 hot. reg. 1486. 



601. Lemotrys Raf. (meadow raceme) this 



