imidwlstks jof ilrc M;(tural ©rbcrs. 



THALAMIFLOEAL EXOaENS. 



Eanunculace^e. — Herbs, rarely shrubs ; leases palmate or 

 digitate, petioles dilated ; sepals three to five ; petals three to 

 fifteen, often deformed ; stamens indefinite, with adnate 

 anthers ; fruit achenes or follicles ; seeds with minute embryo 

 and horny albumen ; containing — Aconitum Napellus, and Podo- 

 phyllum Peltatum. 



MAQNOLiACEiE. — Trees or shrubs with coriaceous leaves and 

 convolute stipules, which cover the buds, and are deciduous ; 

 flowers fragrant ; sepals three to six ; petals three or more, 

 imbricate ; stamens indefinite, with adnate anthers ; carpels 

 numerous, one-celled, on an elevated receptacle ; embryo 

 minute, in fleshy albumen ; containing — Illicmm Anisatum. 



MenispermaceyE. — Trailing shrubs ; leaves simple, entire ; 

 flowers unisexual, often dioecious ; stamens monadelphous or 

 distinct ; carpels on a ■ gynophore, one-celled ; fruit drupaceous, 

 one-celled ; embryo large, cui-ved, in albumen ; containing — 

 Jateorrhiza Columha, and Cissampelos Pareira. 



Papaveeacea/E. — Herbs abounding in milky juice ; leaves 

 alternate, usually divided, exstipulate ; sepals two, caducous ; 

 petals three or four, crumpled in aestivation ; stamens numerous, 

 with adnate anthers ; ovary with parietal placentation ; fruit 

 capsular ; seeds with oily albumen ; containing — Papaver Rhcsas, 

 and Papaver Somniferum. 



Crucefeeje. — Herbs with juice affording sulphur ; leaves alter- 

 nate ; bracts none ; flowers in corymbose racemes ; sepals four ; 

 petals cruciate ; stamens tertradynamous ; ovary superior ; fruit 

 a silique or silicule ; seeds attached to the replum, exalbuminous, 

 with the radicle folded on the cotyledons ; containing — Sinapis 

 Nigra, Sinapis Alha, and Cochlearia Armoracia. 



