CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS, Ise 
when dried, is the razsim, and from the juice of which wine is made. 
Another well-known plant of this order is the Virginian creeper, often 
employed to ornament the walls of houses—The order Geraniacee - 
consists of shrubby and herbaceous plants, many of which have flowers 
of great beauty, esteemed ornaments of our gardens and greenhouses, 
as geraniums and pelargoniums.—Nearly allied to this is the order 
Linacee, from Latin linum, flax, to which flax belongs. The order is 
important chiefly on account of this species. 
The order Leguminose, from Latin legumen, a fon is one of the largest 
orders of phanerogamous? or flowering plants. Some of its species are trees 
of great size; some are very small herbacdous plants. The fruit is generally 
a pod, and the flowers are generally papilionaceous. Many useful plants 
belong to this order; some of them trees valuable for their timber, or as 
yielding dye-stuffs, of which logwood and Brazil-wood are examples; 
some for their foliage, as clover and lucerne; some for their seeds, 
which are used for food, as the pea, bean, lentil, kidney-bean, and chick- 
pea. One of the most important of dye-stuffs, indigo, is obtained from 
the leaves and stems of certain herbaceous species of this order, some 
of which are extensively cultivated in India.—Nearly allied to the 
Leguminose, notwithstanding great differences both in the flowers 
and in the fruit, is the order Rosacee. The rose gives its name to this 
order, and the flowers have generally an appearance somewhat resembling 
it. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, natives of tropical, 
temperate, and cold countries. Many of the most esteemed fruits belong 
to it, as the apple, pear, quince, medlar, loquat, plum, cherry, peach, 
nectarine, almond, raspberry, and strawberry. The fruit of some of these 
is a drupe, that of others a pome; whilst the rose, the raspberry, and 
strawberry afford examples of other kinds of fruit very different from 
these and from each other.—Another large order is that called Myrtaceae, 
to which the myrtle [Latin myrtus] gives its name. It consists of trees 
and shrubs, mostly natives of the warmer parts of the world, and gener- 
ally very beautiful. Some of them have eatable fruits, as the pomegranate 
and the guava; some yield fragrant substances. Cloves are the flower- 
buds of a species of this order; pimento or Jamaica pepper is the fruit 
of another. 
Gourds, pumpkins, cucumbers, and melons belong to an order 
called Cucurbitacee, from Latin cucurbita, a gourd. It consists of 
climbing plants, mostly herbaceous, with large coarse leaves, natives 
of the warmer parts of the world. Acrid properties prevail in this 
order, and some of the species are poisonous. The medicine called 
colocynth is obtained from the fruit of one. The leaves of some, 
however, are used for the table as greens, and the fruit of a number of 
»1 From Greek phaneros, apparent, and gamos, marriage—opposed to cryptogamous, 
