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their maturation or decay, as in the Eutacea, Polygalea, 

 ^[alvace(e, Aurantiaca, Platanacea, Malpighiece, Sa- 

 pindea. 



1090. The highest are characterized by coalition of the 

 carpels into a single ovarium with stunted dissepiments, 

 and by corollae that are well developed and distinguished 

 for colour, delicacy, and magnitude Carnations, Violets, 

 Cistacea, Siliquosoe, Pojjpies, Gamboge-trees. 



CLASS I. 



Seed-plants. 



1691. Plants having a preponderance of seed, that 

 draws after it all the floral parts. 



1692. The ovaria have become seed-like, have sepa- 

 rated from each other, and inclose for the most part only 

 a single seed. 



1693. As in the grasses and Syngenesia many flowers 

 are collected into a spike or upon a receptacle, so here 

 are many carpels in a single corolla Ranunculacea, 

 Geraniacete, Tiliacea, Malvaceae, Magnoliacea. 



1694. The stamina are usually of indefinite number, 

 and mostly connate. 



1695. All forms of stalks are here met with; such 

 as herbs, bushes, shrubs, and trees. All forms also of 

 leaves; spathose leaves, petiolated leaves, simple and 

 divided, yet rarely pinnated. 



1696. The component parts are usually mucilage, as 

 in the roots of the Syngenesia. 



1697. They divide into two great groups, into the 

 quinary and sexanary. Since among the quinary, her- 

 baceous stalks with nodes and spathe-leaves, but 

 capsules only, occur ; they must be arranged in the lowest 

 rank. The sexanary bear fruits. 



1698. First order, Seminaria parenclnjmatosa. Herbs 

 with nodes and spathose leaves, together with nume- 

 rous, mostly one-seeded, carpels, attached in an irre- 



