COROLLIFLOBJE. 



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are distinguished by the plaited aestivation of the corolla, equality of the 

 number of stamens 'with the lobes of the corolla, and a curved embryo 

 from the Scrophulariacese, which have imbricated aestivation, stamens 

 fewer than the lobes of the corolla, and a straight embryo ; but none of 



Fig. 415. 



Henbane (Hyoscyamus niqer). 



these characters are constant in the former Order ; yet the nearly regular 

 corolla and five perfect stamens will in almost all cases distinguish the 

 Solanacese. Miers has proposed, in extension of a suggestion of R. Brown, 

 to establish a new Order, Atropaceae, to include the aberrant forms of 

 Solanacese and Scrophulariaceae, and leave these better defined the brief 

 diagnoses of these Orders being : 



1. SOLANACEJE. Stamens equal in number to the lobes of the corolla (or 

 petals), whose aestivation is valvate or induplicate-valvate. 2. ATRO- 

 PACE^E. Stamens equal in number to the lobes of the corolla (or 



