NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



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and the third also with an usually superior ovary, but with two carpels. 

 The Order Plantaginece stands alone at the end of the series as 

 anomalous. 



The following is the arrangement of the Orders under these 

 groups : — 



Series I. Infee^. Series III. Bicarpellat^. 



Cohors 1. RuhiaUs. 



83. Caprifoliaceae. 



84. Kubiaceae. 



Cohors 2. Asterales. 



86. Valerianese. 



86. Dipsaceae. 



87. Calycereae. 



88. Compositae. 



Cohors 3. Campanales. 



89. Stylidese. 



90. Goodenovieae 



91. Campanulaceae. 



Series II. HeteeomekjE. 

 Cohors 4. JEricales. 



92. Vacciniaceae. 



93. Ericaceae. 



94. Monotropeae. 



95. Epacrideae. 



96. Diapensiaceae. 



97. Lennoaceas. 



Cohors 5. Primulales. 



98. Plumbagineae. 



99. Primulacese. 



100. Myrsineae. 



Cohors 6. Ehenalei. 



101. Sapotaceae. 



102. Ebenaceae. 



103. Styracea?, 



Cohors 7. Gentianales. 



104. Oleaceae. 



105. Salvadoracese. 



106. Apocynaceae. 



107. Asclepiadeze. 



108. Loganiaceae. 



109. Gentianeae. 



Cohors 8. Polemoniale» . 



110. Polemoniaceae. 



111. Hydrophyllacese. 



112. Boragineae. 



113. Convolvulace^. 



114. Solanaceae. 



Cohors 9. Personates. 



115. Scrophularineae. 



116. Orobanchaceae. 



117. Lentibularieae. 



118. Columelliaceae. 



119. Gesneraceae. 



120. Bignoniaceae. 



121. Pedalineae. 



122. Acanthaceae. 



Cohors 10. Lamiales. 



123. Myoporineee. 



124. Selagineae. 



125. Yerbenaceae. 



126. Labiatae. 



Or do anomalus. 



127. Plantagineae. 



l^otes of some of the points which a quite superficial survey of the 

 volume has presented may be useful. Loheliacece. becomes a tribe of 

 Campanulace(B, in which Order are also included the genera Cyphia, 

 Nemacladus, and Sphenoclea. There are several new genera in 

 VacciniacecB, which on account of its inferior ovary is kept distinct from 

 Ericacece. The curious group of nine raonotypic genera forming the 

 wholly parasitic Monotropece is also maintained as a separate 

 Order ; the Pyrolece are placed in Ericaceae. Only a single species of 

 Calluna is recognised ; the Heaths proper are reckoned at 400. The 

 genus Monotropa is restricted to the Himalayan and American M. 

 uniflora, our British species being the type of the genus Hypopithys 

 (H. muliiflora, Scop.), which is maintained. We find three new 

 genera in the Myrsinece, two Andean and one from New Caledonia. 



