SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 



20. ANEM'ONE, [Page 782.] Calyx petaloid, of five or many 



pieces. Corolla wanting. Capsules single seeded, in- 

 serted into a thickened hemispherical receptacle. Invo- 

 lucre more or less remote from the flower. 



** Calyx of five pieces. Corolla of five to fen petals. 



21. ADO-NIS, [Page 785.] Calyx of five pieces. Petals five to 



ten, the claw without a nectariferous gland. Capsules 

 small, single seeded. 



22. RANUN'CULUS, [Page 786.] Calyx of three to five pieces. 



Petals five to man} 7 , the claw vvilh a nectariferous gland, 

 naked, or furnished with a scale. Carpels numerous, 

 ovate, sub-compressed with a mucronated apex, smooth, 

 striated, tuberculated, or spinous and collected into a head. 



CLASS 14. DIDYNAMIA. 14 Stamens, two longer 

 than the other two. 



ORDER J. GYMNOSPERMIA. 



Fruit four, angular, nut-like, single seeded, capsules with the 

 style in the middle at the bottom of the calyx. Nat. Ord. 

 LABIATE. Juss. 



TRIBE I. MENTHOIDE.E. Benth. Lab. Corolla sub-campanu- 

 late or funnel-shaped, the limb four or Jive-cleft, nearly regular. 

 Stamens distant, straight. 



1. MENTHA, [Page 797.] Calyx equal, five toothed, its mouth 

 naked, or rarely villous. Corolla funnel-shaped, the 

 limb four-cleft, nearly equal, the upper segment emar- 

 ginate, its tube short. Stamens distant. Anthers with 

 parallel cells. Filaments naked. 



TRIBE II. SATUREINEJE. Eenth. Lab. Corolla two lipped, the 

 upper one. nearly plane. Stamens distant, and either spreading 

 or curved beneath the upper lip of the corolla. 



2. THY'MDS, [Page 804.] Flowers in whorled capitate racemes 



Calyx tubular, ten ribbed, two lipped, the upper lip three 

 toothed, the lower one bifid, throat hainr. Corolla with 

 the upper lip straight, notched, the lower trifid, tube naked. 



3. ORI'GANUM, [Page 805.] Flowersin angular spicated whorls^ 



imbricated with bracteas. Calyx five toothed, or obliquely 

 cut, or entire. Corolla with the upper lip straight, 

 . notched, the lower trifid, tube naked. 



