180 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



CH^ROPHYLLUM AUREUM. Linn. 

 E. B. 2103. 



By the side of cornfields between Arbroath and Montrose, 

 Porfarshire, and at Corstorphine, Edinburgh (Mr. G. Don). Not 

 found since. 



CH^ROPHYLLUM AROM ATICUM. Linn. 



E. B. S. 2G3G. 



By the river Lunan, near Guthrie, Porfarshire (Mr. G. Don). 

 Not found since. 



ORDER XXXIV.— ARALIACEiE.* 



Shrubs or trees, more rarely herbs, with round stems, in the 

 shrubby species often climbing or adhering to supporting bodies 

 by radicular fibres. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, simple 

 or palmately or pinnately (often ternately) compound or decom- 

 pound ; petioles generally enlarged at the base, but without evident 

 stipules. Elowers usually greenish, perfect or polygamous, regular, 

 axillary or terminal, in simple umbels or heads, which are disposed 

 in irregular racemes or panicles; umbels frequently with an 

 involucre at the base. Calyx of 5 sepals, completely combined 

 and adnate to the ovary, with the limb reduced to a ring, or 

 5-toothed. Petals 5 or 10, rarely absent, entire, inserted round 

 a fleshy disk, which crowns the ovary. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 adherent to the calyx, crowned with a fleshy usually entire 

 epigynous disk, 2- to 5-celled, each cell with a solitary suspended 

 ovule. Styles 2 to 5, distinct or combined, sometimes very short. 

 Pruit commonly a more or less fleshy berry, usually wdth as many 

 pyrcnes or stones as there are cells ; more rarely dry. Seeds 

 anatropous ; albumen copious, usually fleshy ; embryo minute. 



* This Order ought probably to be combined with Umbelliferae. Dr. Seemauu 

 redistributes the geuera of Umbellifera3 and Hederacete (which is in the main equivalent 

 to A raliaccfe) according as the aestivation is imbricated (quincuncial) or valvate : this 

 is, however, a purely artificial character, as it removes Crithraum from the Umbelliferre, 

 and is evidently of little value in this group of plants, as in many others, such as 

 Rubiacese, Jasminacese, and Gentiauacese. 



