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lariaoeas, but this would be equa , 

 or 3rd, to arrange them all in an Uil 

 features of the two ■ 

 alternative app in thei the on! 



the limit h divisioi 



1. Si ii.. iiii i A.BIAC1 I I 



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■ Ivatioa 



iving flowers is< 

 imbricated or some 



" Aocordingto thi 

 with ;i monopetaloua corolla, havii 

 (even under the unusual 

 and equal, and their margins alwaj 

 epipetaloua stamena alternate with an 

 unequal in length and Bize, and thefiftb vt 

 by longitudinal alits or pores; an ovarium i 

 with a simple style and a ! 

 capsular or baccate, 2-locular, rarely n 

 albuminous seeds with an embryo, in the sub 

 terete, and curved in a more or less annular 

 Rectembryese shod and straight, the radicle in all 

 to the basal angle of the seed, and turned 

 which is [y lateral and somewhat marginal, but 



plants with alternate, often geminate, ran 

 sometimes axillary, but more generally a little ti 

 or fasciculated, or in different modification 



B S. k.i I'm l Mil m i i v. , 

 mure or less curved and irregular, with a 4- oi 

 generally unequal and bilabiate, and decidedly iml 



mens - or I. didynamous, rarelj 5 or with a rudii 

 introrse; an ovarium most generally bilocular, a simpli 

 less bilabiate <ir 2-lobed: fruit almost always 

 '_' locular, rarely more-celled, bursting in diife 

 dissepiment. Seeds albuminous, with an embryo quit 



erally with the radicle pointed tow hilum: ii 



embryo is peripherically curved, and in the Rhinanthca?, by an 

 «'t the podosperm, the hilum app< i 

 although the floral leaves are often i 

 opposite, a circumstance thai occurs onlj 



strictly axillary. 



"The A i i;ni a. t.i: will comprise all the 

 in the Solanacese and Scrophulai nd will include ; 



flowors with the tube often plicated longitudinally in 1 

 what unequal, but never bilabiat ly divid 



either imbricately disposed in a or ai 



between that form and the induplicate, but 

 1 constantly free from the adjoining on 



fertile Btamena alternate with the lol 

 rarely :; of them Bterile; anthers generally 

 usually with parallel cells bursting lonj itudinally, 



le: ovarium 2-celled, rarely with 

 growth of the placentae, with ovules 

 adnata to the dissepiment as in the two pn 

 i often of a peculiar form : fruit eithi 

 reniform and compressed with a lateral hilum, thi 

 either straight or more or less curvi 

 Solanacese, always turned away from th 

 shrubs with a habit similar to that of tl S 

 »>r fasciculate leavea : infloi 



rj to the insertion of the petiole. 

 "The family of the Mropacere ia dii 

 tribe being distinguished bj 

 feature; these characters the render maj 

 quoted, where a full diagnosis and ill I °* < * S 00 



ids order, as well a> of the Solanat 



