CLASSIFICATION. 



Class II.— Conifer ae. 



1. The Pine Family. 



Trunk attaining large dimensions copiously branched. 

 Leaves scale-like or acicular. Fern, flowers, as well as the 

 males in cones. 1, Pinacea (p. 138). 



Class III.— Gnetinee. 

 1. The Gnetum Family. 



A large climbing shrub with thickened nodes and uni- 

 sexual minute flowers arranged in panicled annulate spikes. 

 Fls. with a sheath resembling a' udimentary perianth 

 Ovules erect. 1, Gnetace3B (rt m 138). 



Sub-division II.— Anffjfospermae. (p. 49). 



Class I.— Dicotyledons, (p. 49). 



Sub-Class I.— Choripetalae. (p. 50). 



Series A (vide p. 51), 

 Order I.— Ranales or Polycarpicae. 



Trees, shrubs, or nerbs, often scandent, with simple alter- 

 nate exstipulate sometimes dotted leaves. Fls. regular and 

 2-sexual, acyclic or hemicyclic, or if cyclic then the whorls 

 3-merous. St. and carpels usually, and perianth leaves some- 

 times, numerous. If stamens few then in 3-merous whorls. 

 Carpels free, sometimes stalked in fruit. 



Exceptions : — 



L. opp. and compound in Clematis family, sub-opposite or opp. in a 

 few Lauraceae. 



L. stipulate in Magnoliaceae. 



t Fls. dioecious in Menispermaceae, 1-sexual in a few LauracesB. 

 Fls. 2-4-merous in Ciasampelos, BepalB b'-lO in Stephania. Perianth 



sometimes 5-cleft in Lauraceae. 



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