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PICTURE OF ORGANIZED NATURE. 



in the Warm and the contiguous part of the Tempe- 

 rate Zone, consists of trees, shrubs, and herbs. 



12. The Order of Barberry-plants (Berberides) be- 

 gins, in the form of herbs, in the colder tracts of the 

 Temperate Zone (Epimedium alpinum); proceeding- 

 afterwards into shrubs which inhabit the Temperate 

 Zones. 



13. The Order of the Rutacea is herbaceous and 

 shrubby, and grows from the middle of the Temperate 

 towards the Warm Zone. Of this kind are the 

 Rue (Ruta), and the Dictany (Dictamnus). 



14. The Order of the Portulacece consists of herbs 

 and shrubs ; which, beginning in the colder portion 

 of the Temperate Zone, extend towards the Torrid. 



15. The Order of the Water-Willows (Salicaria] is 

 closely related to that of the rose-flowered plants; 

 and consists of herbs and shrubs, which are pecu- 

 liar to the Temperate and Warm Zones. It begins, 

 in some herbs, in the colder parts of the globe; as, 

 Glaux maritima, Peplis portula, Lythrum salicaria. 



16. The Order of the Terebintaceee is nearly allied 

 to that of the leguminous plants. Its fruits have 

 stones ; and the pair of shells, wherein the stone lies, 

 resembles the pair of valves in the leguminous plants : 

 the relation to which appears, moreover, from their 

 consisting of many plants and trees ; which are, espe- 



