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ies many, several, or solitary ; each of one cell that includes, in most 

 1 ovule; in some, 1 to many ovules. Style lateral or terminal. Leaves 

 ate, in nearly all stipulate; pinnately divided, or simple. {Dec. and 

 dley.) Fruit, in many of the genera, edible. 



etcription, $c. The ligneous species which constitute this order include 

 finest flowering shrub in the world, the rose ; and the trees which pro- 

 e the most useful and agreeable fruits of temperate climates, viz. the 

 le, the pear, the plum, the cherry, the apricot, the peach, and the nec- 

 e. The plants are, for the most part, deciduous low trees or shrubs, 

 producing flowers more or less showy; and the greater number fruits 

 ich are edible. They are chiefly natives of Europe and Asia; but 

 of them are also found in North America, and some in South 

 ica, and the north of Africa. The fruit-bearing species, and the rose, 

 t period of civilisation, and 

 than any other ligneous p 



