GENERAL HISTORY 



DICHLAMYDEOUS PLANTS, 



COMPRISING COMPLETE 



DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT ORDERS; 



TOGETHER WITH THE 



CHARACTERS OF THE GENERA AND SPECIES, AND AN ENUMERATION OF THE CULTIVATED VARIETIES; 

 THEIR PLACES OF GROWTH, TIME OF FLOWERING, MODE OF CULTURE, AND 



USES IN MEDICINE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY; 

 THE SCIENTIFIC NAMES ACCENTUATED, THEIR ETYMOLOGIES EXPLAINED, AND THE CLASSES AND ORDERS 



ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS, 



AND PRECEDED BY INTRODUCTIONS TO THE LINNyEAN AND NATURAL SYSTEMS, 

 AND A GLOSSARY OF THE TERMS USED: 



THE WHOLE 



ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM. 



BY GEORGE DON, F.L.S. 



IN FOUR VOLUMES. 

 VOL. I. THALAMIFLOR^C. 



LONDON: 



PRINTED FOR J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON ; J. AND W. T. CLARKE; LONGMAN AND CO.; T. CADELL ; J. RICHARDSON ; JEFFERY 

 AND SON; BALDWIN AND CRADOCK ; J. BOOKER; J. BOOTH; HARVEY AND DARTON J S. BAGSTER ; SHERWOOD AND CO.; 

 HARDING'AND LEPARD ; J. F. SETCHEL ; WHITTAKER AND CO.; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; AND E. HODGSON. 



MDCCCXXXI. 



UNIVERSITY ( F CALIFORNIA 



DENARY 



COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 



