Cl. 6.] ATUIPLICES. 91 



Stigmas 2 or 3, sometimes separated from the Sta- 

 mens. Mr. Brown observes the farinaceous Albumen 

 to be sometimes deficient, that substance being fleshy 

 and in very small quantity, in Eriogonum of Michaux ; 

 Pijrsh N. Amer. Q77 ; a genus which cannot be re- 

 moved from this very natural Order, 



Ord. C9. ATIUPLICES. " Calyx of 1 leaf, deeply 

 divided, bearing the definite Stamens from it's base, 

 tiermen 1, superior. Style 1, or wanting, or many, 

 -ach with 1, rarely 2, Stigmas. Seed 1, many in P/ij/- 

 tnlacca, 2 in Galema, either naked, or enveloped in 

 the Calyx, or inclosed in a palpy or capsular Peri- 

 carp. Embryo curved round the farinaceous Albu- 

 men. Stem herbaceous, in some shrubby. Flowers 

 sometimes separated. Leaves mostly alternate, un- 

 divided, entire, more or less fleshy, without Stipulas." 



A very natural and numerous Order, especially 

 \\here the Seed is invested with the Calyx, as in />#- 

 sella, Salsola, Spinacliia, Chcnopod'uim, Atripl&r 4 

 1)15. 163, Blitum, Salicornia. In the two latter the 

 Stamens, being occasionally 1, C, or 3, and beann-., 

 no fixed analogy to the Calyx, are scarcely to be call- 

 ed definite. Mr. Brown denominates this Order 

 Ckenopodetf, with DeCandolle, and remarks that it 

 has no character to distinguish it from the Amaranth^ 

 Ord. 30, though there is a difference in habit. J$ 



' C 1 



iact, the insertion of the Stamens is not, in either 

 tribe, so fixed, as to be depended on, though the di- 



