FAMILIES OF GREATEST WORTH. 63 



The C'onvolvulacew (Convolvulus Family) affords the sweet 

 potato, morning glory, and cypress vine. 



The Solanacece (Night-shade Family) furnishes the potato, 

 tomato, egg-plant, pepper, ground-cherry, tobacco, belladonna, 

 bittersweet, petunia. 



The Chenopodiacece (Goosefoot Family) affords the beet, spinach, 

 orache,Swiss chard, and several weeds. 



The PolygonacecB (Buckwheat Family) contains buckwheat, 

 rhubarb, knot-grass, sorrel, several docks, and swartweed. 



The ScitaminecB (Gingerworts) includes the cinnamons, gingers, 

 bananas, and arrow-roots. 



Tfie LiliacecB (Lily Family) gives us the lily, hyacinth, tulip, 

 asparagus, chives, garlic, leek, onion, -shallots. 



There are several other families which contribute more or less 

 to the crops of the field, orchard and garden. 



The Graminem (Grass Family) is by far the most important of 

 any, and is noticed on the succeeding page. 



For making clothing, there are two families of much value, 

 viz: 



The Malvacece (Mallow Family) containing okra, mallow, hol- 

 lyhock, hibiscus, abutilon, and the cotton plant, and 



The Linacece (Flax Family) including the flax, valuable for 

 its fiber as well as the seeds which furnish linseed oil. 



The Labiates (Mint Family) is quite remarkable for aromatic 

 herbs, and contains basil, balm, sweet marjoram, pennyroyal, 

 lavender, spearmint, peppermint, horehound, hyssop, thyme, 

 summer savory, rosemary, bergamot, cat-mint, motherwort and 

 sage. 



Our leading trees belong to about twelve families, including 

 the tulip-tree and magnolias, the basswood, the holly, the maples, 

 the catalpas, the ashes, the elms, the buttonwood, the walnuts, 

 and hickories, the oaks, chestnuts, beech, the birches, and alders, 

 the willows, and poplars, and last, but by no means the least, 



