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Anagallis, Lysimachia, Phlox, Exacum, Chlora, Geu- 

 tiana, Sioertia, Chironia and Sarothra ; to which Ascy- 

 rum, Hypericum and Cistus stand as an appendix. The 

 wheel-shaped corolla of many of the above plants, has 

 evidently suggested the name. 



Order 21. Precis. Primula and its elegant relatives 

 form the basis of this order. " They are all destitute of 

 stems. Leaves simple. Flowerstalk umbellate, except 

 in Cyclamen. Flower regular. Calyx, as well as corolla, 

 five-cleft. Stamens five. Style one. Fruit a simple 

 superior capsule. The umbel is often accompanied by 

 an involucrum. They are vernal-flowering plants, and 

 have, except Cyclamen, nothing malignant in their quali- 

 ties." Limosella stands alone in a second section of this 

 order, but rather perhaps belongs to the 40th. Meny- 

 anthes, Hottonia and Samolus form a third section, at- 

 tended by a mark of doubt. Sibthorpia was once inserted 

 in manuscript, but afterwards erased. 



Order 22. Caryophyllei. The Pink and Campion 

 tribe. "Root fibrous. Stem herbaceous, scarcely shrubby, 

 jointed ; its branches commonly alternate. Leaves simple, 

 more or less of a lanceolate figure, undivided, hardly cre- 

 nate in any degree, sessile, with no other appearance of 

 a footstalk than their elongated narrow base, opposite, 

 obvolute. Stipulas none; neither are there any distinct 

 bracteas, nor spines, prickles nor tendrils. The plants 

 are mostly smooth, few are hairy, none prickly or bristly. 

 Flower rarely sessile. Stamens never numerous, but either 

 the same in number as the petals, or twice as many. 

 Pistils from one to five, not more. Fruit a capsule, either 

 of one cell, or of as many as there are styles ; the cells 

 usually with many seeds, Drypis only having a solitary 

 seed. A few of these plants with separated flowers occur 

 among the species ofCucubalus, Silene and Lychnis. The 

 whole order is harmless, without any peculiar taste or 

 smell, except in the flowers. It contains the flores ca- 

 ryophyllali of Tournefort, who defined these as having the 



