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hooked filaments. 4. Jasminece : This family is composed of shrubs 

 or trees which have a tubular calyx and corolla, disposed in a corymb 

 or a panicle, and two stamina. Their fruit is a capsule, a drupe or 

 a berry. Their branches and leaves are for the most part opposite. 

 5. Pyrenacece : Herbs or bushes with opposite leaves, with flowers 

 in a corymb or spike, and stamina two, four, or six, but generally 

 four. The greater portion of this family are exotic. 6. Labiatce : 

 This family is extremely natural, and corresponds to the Didynamia 

 gymnospermia of Linnaeus. All are odoriferous. Their stem is quad- 

 rangular, with opposite branches and leaves ; the flower stalks in 

 the axillae of the leaves ; an irregular corolla of five divisions, of 

 which the two upper, often united, are separated from the other 

 three, and two or four stamina. The fruit is composed of four ca- 

 riopses, with a common style and a forked stigma. 7- Scrophulartce : 

 Herbaceous plants, with the fruit a capsule of one or two cells. They 

 have a disagreeable smell. 8. Solanece : Herbs or shrubs of which 

 the flowers, generally regular, have commonly a calyx in five divi- 

 sions, five angles in the corolla, five stamina, and a single style, 

 which gives rise to a capsule or berry. The flowers arise almost 

 always from the axillae of the leaves. The plants of this family are 

 of a sombre aspect and disagreeable smell. 9. Boraginece, or Aspe- 

 rifolice ; the last name being given from the greater part of the 

 species haying their leaves covered with asperities or rough hairs. 

 In this family the flowers have their external parts divided into 

 five ; the ovary has four lobes, and there is but one style. 10. The 

 Convolvulacece, of which species are found in all climates, have al- 

 ways simple and alternate leaves, and the stem often climbing. 

 Their flowers are bell-shaped, with five stamina, alternating with 

 the lobes of the limb when they exist ; ovary simple, surmounted 

 with one or many styles, forming a capsule with two or at most 

 three cells. 11. The Polemoniacece are mostly exotic plants, much 

 resembling the preceding family. They differ, however, in the cap- 

 sule, of which the central receptacle has partitions corresponding 

 not to the suture of the valves but with one side, or a projecting 

 ridge in their middle. 12. The Bignonece have commonly an ir- 

 regular corolla, disposed in a panicle, with four didynamous sta- 

 mina, and one sterile, to which succeeds a fruit of two cells. 13. 

 The Gentianece have opposite leaves, generally without a leaf-stalk, 

 and entire. The corolla dries up without falling, and the fruit is 

 a simple capsule, or deeply divided into two lobes, containing many 

 seeds in a fleshy perisperm. 14. The Apocyneas are plants, the 

 greater portion woody, which turn from right to left, the inverse 

 of many other climbing plants. Their corolla is often accompanied 

 with particular appendages ; and their seeds, generally covered with 



