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CLASS 5. PENTANDRIA. 



(Containing Plants with Five Stamens.) 



A very important class, containing many favorite flowers and 

 fruits, as the elegantly- drooping Cyclamen, the well-known 

 Jacob's Ladder, the Periwinkle, the Stramonium, the curious 

 Yellow Balsam, and still more curious Dodder, the Elm, the 

 Currant, and the Gooseberry, witli many other plants, natives 

 of England indeed, but rarely to be found, except in gardens. 

 Some of the plants of Pentandria are wholesome, others the 

 most deadly poison. 



In addition to the above, we find very numerous gems and 

 curiosities of the garden in Pentandria, which, besides being an 

 important class, is one of the largest of the whole Linncean 

 system. In the first order belong the Marvel of Peru, Turn- 

 sole, Cerinthe, the Little Aretia, the many species of the 

 Primrose tribe, among which are the Polyanthus and the Auri- 

 cula. We have here also the American Cowslip, the Phlox, 

 Ramonda, Nicandra, Tobacco, Jalap, Scammony, Cobsea, Epa- 

 cris, Azalea, Oleander, Mandrake, Winter Cherry, Lycium, 

 Potatoe, Egg plant, Capsicum, Lobelia, Honeysuckle, Coffee, 

 Vine, Buckthorn, Balsam, Cock/s-comb, Globe Amaranth, and 

 the splendid Strelitzia. In the second order, we find the curious 

 Hoya, Stapelia, the beautiful Gentian a, and all the umbelli- 

 ferous plants. Other orders contain flowers equally interesting. 



Order 1. MONOGYNIA. Style 1. 

 * Seeds naked, four together ; corolla beneath, of one petal. 



VIPER'S BUGLOSS, (Echium.) Corolla irregular, widely open, 



and without scales at the mouth. 

 CROMWELL, (Lit/iospermum.) Corolla funnel-shaped, deeply 



cleft, without scales at tke meuth. 



