410 DICOTYLEDONES — CALYCIFLOlliE. 



adherent with the ovanj, entire or tootlied at the margin. Cor- 

 olla regular, 4 — 5-lobed. Stamens 4—5, between tlie divisions 

 of tlio corolla. Ovary \. *SVe 2-partite or bifid. Stigma AoxMe. 

 Pericarp 2-celled, 2-seeded. Embryo straight, imbedded in the 

 axis of a liorny albumen. Radicle inferior. — Herbs ivitli whorled 



leaves. Flowers axillary and terminal 1. Rl'bia, jo. 55. 2. 



Galium, 7>. 55. 3. Sherakdia, />. 55. 4. Asperula, jw. 56. 



Ohd. XLIV. VALERIANE^. Calyx-tube adnate with 

 the ovary, the limb toothed or forming a pappus. Corolla with 

 3—6 lobes. Ovary w\i\i 1 perfect cell and often 2 or 3 abortive 

 ones. Fruit dry, indehiscent. /&«/ solitary, pendulous.— Leaves 

 opposite, without stipules. — Tonic and bitter Herbs : the roots, 

 used as Vermifuges, have a powerful scent ; those of Nardosta- 

 chys Jatamansi constitute the Spikenard of the Ancients. — The 

 seeds of an allied plant, Valeriana rubra, have been used in for- 

 mer times for embalming the dead ; and some thus employed in 

 the 12th century, on being removed from the cere-cloth, in the 

 19th century, and planted, have vegetated.^ — 1. Valeriana, 

 p. 12. 2. Fedia,/». 13. 



Ord. XLV. DIPSACE.E. Calyx-tube adnate with the 

 ovary, surrounded by a scariose involucre. Corolla with the 

 limb oblique, with an imbricated sestivation. Stamens 4 : an- 

 thers distinct. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit dry, indehiscent, 1-celled, 

 with one pendulous seed, crowned with the pappus -like calyx. 

 Allmnmi fleshy. — Mostly herbaceous plants, ivith opposite or 

 whorled leaves. Flowers pedicellate, collected into a head which is 

 surrounded by a many-leaved itwolucre. Nearly allied to the 

 Compositse— The Fuller's Teasel is the heads, with uncinate 

 spines, of Dipsacus Fullonum.—\. Dipsacus, p. 55. 2. Sca- 

 BiosA, p. 55. 3. Kiiautia, p. 55. 



Ord. XL VI. COMPOSITTE. Calyx adherent with the 

 ovary, the liinb entire or toothed or mostly expanded into a 

 pappus, which crowns the fruit. Corolla regular or irregular. 

 Stamens 5, syngenesious. Ovary 1. Style ], sheathed by the 

 tube of the anthers. Stir/mas simple or bifid. Fruit an achenium. 

 Seed erect, without albumen. Embryo straight. Radicle oppo- 

 site the hilum. — Stems, in the British Genera, herbaceous. Leaves 

 opposite or alternate. Flowers capitate, inserted into a broad re- 

 ceptacle and surrounded by an involucre. — Tribe 1. CICHORA- 

 CEiE, (bitter and narcotic, abounding in milky juice). Tra- 

 GOPOGON, &c. p. 283 — Tribe 2. CINAROCEPHAL^E (bitter 

 and tonic), Arctium, <S.c ;>, 284, and Centaurea, ;j. 288. — 

 Tribe 3. CORYMBIFERiE, (aromatic, stimulant, containing 



' See, for interesting iiifoira:ition,cominiiiiicated by the Rev. W. Burroughes 

 on tlie subject of the germination of seeds that had been buried in a coffin at 

 Wymondhain Abbey, the Companion to the Botanical Magazine, vol. ii. p. 299. 



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