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of which there are six, viz. Velezia, Linconia, Nama, 

 Heuchera, Bumalda, and Anabasis. 3. Those with 

 pentapetalous flowers, placed above, with the seeds in a 

 capsule ; of this there is only one, viz. Vahlia. 4. 

 Those plants called in natural arrangements the Um- 

 bellatae* having pentapetalous flowers, placed above, 

 with two seeds. They are subdivided, (1.) into such 

 as have both an universal and partial involucrurn; 

 of which there are thirty, viz. Phyllis, Eryngium, Hy- 

 drocotyle, Sanicula, Astrantia, Heracleum, Oenanthe, 

 Echinophora, Caucalis, Artedia, Daucus, Tordylium, 

 Laserpitium, Peucedanum, Ammi, Hasselquistia, Co- 

 niutn, Bunium, Athamanta, Bupleurum, Sium, Se- 

 linum, Cuminum, Ferula, Crithmum, Bubon, Ca- 

 chrys, Ligusticum, Angelica, and Sison. (2.) Those 

 with partial involucra only ; of which there are eight, 

 viz. Ethusa, Coriandrum, Scandix, Chcerophyllum, 

 Phellandrium, Imperatoria, Seseli, and Crcuta. (3.) 

 Such as have neither partial nor universal involucra ; 

 of these there are nine genera, viz. Smyrnitim, Carum, 

 Thapsia, Pastinaca, Anethum, -ZE^opodium, Apium, 

 Pimpinella, and Cussonia. 5. Those with incomplete 

 flowers, that is, wanting the Corolla ; of which there 

 are seven, viz. Salsola, Chenopodium, Beta, Her- 

 niaria, Gomphrena, Bosea, and Ulrnus. 



O UD EH II J. TRIGYN i A, comprehending such plants 

 as have three Styles. This order contains eighteen 

 genera, distinguished into, l.'Such as have flowers 

 placed above ; of which there are two genera, viz. 

 Viburnum and Sambucus. 2. Such as have the 

 flowers below ; of which there are sixteen, viz. Se- 

 mecarpus, Rhus, Cassine, Spathelia, Staphylea, Ta- 

 marix, Drypis, Turnera, Sarothra, Alsine, 1'elephi- 

 um, Corrigiola, Portulacaria, Pharnaceum, Xylophyl- 

 la, and Basella. 



* In dry Soils the umbelliferous plants are aromatic, warm ? 

 resolvent, and carminative, but 'in moist places poisouous. 

 The virtue is in the roots aud seeds. 







