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Cannabine.e. — Scabrous plants witli watery juice ; filaments 

 erect, indeliiscent ; seeds exalbuminous. Examples — Camialis 

 Indica, and BJumulus Lu2mlus. 



Ulmacil^e. — Trees and slu^ubs ; leaves rough ; juice watery ; 

 fruit a samara or drupe ; embryo straight or curved. Example — 

 Ulmus Campestris. 



MoRE^. — Trees or shrubs, rough-leaved; juice milky; fruit 

 a sorosis or syconus; embryo hooked. Examples — Morus Nigra 

 and Ficus Carica. 



Artocahpace^. — (Not officinal.) 



CupuLrFERE. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves simple, stipulate, often 

 feather- veined ; flowers monoecious, males in catkins ; stamens 

 five to twenty ; fertile flowers, aggregate, or on a spike ; ovary 

 many-celled, within a capsule or involucre ; fruit a glans ; seed 

 solitary, exalbuminous; containing — Quercus Pedunciilata and- 

 Quercus Infectoria. 



CoNiFER.E. — Plants abounding in turpentine, with glandular 

 '^voody tissue ; leaves usually acerose ; flowers unisexual ; males 

 in catkins, monandrous or monadelphous ; females in cones, 

 sometimes solitary ; ovules naked ; embryo with oily albumen, 

 and two or many verticillate cotyledons. The sub-orders are — 

 AhietinecE and Cuprissinece. 



AsiETiNEiE. — Fertile flowers, in cones, with one or two inver- 

 ted ovules at base of each scale. 



Scales with a thickened apophysis ; leaves two to five, in 

 bundles — Pinus. 



Scales without a thickened apophysis ; leaves flat, soHtary — 

 Abies. 



Scales without a thickened apophysis; leaves tetragonous, 

 solitary — Piceee. 



Scales without a thickened apophysis; leaves fascicled — Larix. 



CuPRESSiNE^. — Ovules erect ; fruit an indurated cone or 

 galbulus. Example — Juniperus. 



