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CONVERSATION THE NINTH. 



CLASS 7. HEPTAN'DRIA TRIENTA'LIS. HORSE- 



CHESNUT-TREE CLASS 8. OCTAN'DRIA. HEATHS. 



DAPH'NE MEZE'REUM, COMMON MEZEREON, EXA- 

 MINED. MAPLE. NUT-TREE. WALNUT. BALM 



OF GILEAD. POPLAR. CORK-TREE. OAK; ITS 



VARIOUS USES. CLASS 9. ENNEAN'DRIA. BU'TO- 



MUS UMBELLA'TUS, FLOWERING-RUSH, EXAMINED. 

 LAUREL-TREE. CINNAMON. CAMPHOR. RHU- 

 BARB. 



MOTHER. 



WE are now come to the least numerous of all the 

 Linnean classes, the seventh, Heptandria ; of 

 which there is but one genus native in England ; 

 and of that only one species is known, the Chick- 

 weed Wintergreen, Trienta'lis europae'a. It grows 

 in woods, and on turfy heaths in the northern 

 counties, but you are not likely to meet with it in 

 our own neighbourhod. 



The Horse-chesnut, ^Es'culus Hippocas'tanum, 

 in the first order of the class Heptandria, is a native 

 of the northern parts of Asia, whence it was in- 

 troduced into Europe, about the year 1 500. There 

 are several Horse-chesnut trees in our plantations, 



