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An elaborate account "I this ' » i • t • i 

 in his Dissertation upon the Indian ap< 

 quoted. It is tbi re that the m 

 •nd a natural arrangi ment of them | i 

 of Dr. Brown, that among Acanthada th< 

 placenta] processes, and accordingly lii- i 



I'r >~i-> r\|,;iii'liil into ahornj cup 



II. Ndtoniea : Pn I into a papilla which l 



Seeds small and pitted. 111./ 



The subordinate divisions are formed upon considi I uitli t) 



the corolla, the number ><\ Btamens, the condition <>f tin- anther, & 

 •ridel} from Dr. Brown in his estimat i 



arrangement hi ince proposed bj i 



ance to the placental pro md adds two b 



He truly observes that then an few natural Orders which i 

 searching in n as thai ol Acanthada I 



chiefly occupied himself with Indian species : but theci 

 which load the shelves of all large herbaria, atu -t how small .1 

 bear to the whole of the ' hrder. 



Prof tsor Nees \ Eeenbeck entertains the opinion that the fni 

 nf 4 carpels, alternate with the Bepals, a fifth, answering to the - 

 lower sepals, being constantly deficient. He says that their union 

 covered when thej are very young, and thai each has it- own midrib ai 

 veins at its base ; he compares th< se carpels t" the bractli I 

 he states that the placentae of the up] of the npper carp Uarj 



lower edge of the lower, are constantly imperfect. — It 



ntliuds are ahiio.-t entirely tropical, and in such 1 

 Btituting in t:i<-t a large part of the weedj herbage. It is 

 that they advance far !■■ the north, as in I 

 few Bpeciee inhabiting the Unit 



Tluv are of ver) slender importance toman. Thi 

 many, however, are plai Uy the s\ 



lira, and Ruellia. For the m st part the) are mucilaginont 

 raonally the bitterness increases, and they become pectoral med 

 plants. The genuine Acantha, formerly cal 

 and sinnated leaves furnished the noble ornament of the Corinthian 



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