112 GUAIACAM. [Cl."9. 



The insertion of the Corolla, characteristic of this 

 Class, is not very apparent, and I observe that Mr. 

 Brown does not allude to such insertion, but, even in 

 the character of the Ebenacea, contradicts it. In fact, 

 nature and art accord very ill in this part of the Sy- 

 stem. The first Order might, in the main, be re- 

 moved to the foregoing Class, with whose character it 

 agrees : while the fourth goes most readily and natu- 

 rally to the eleventh Class, having some relationship to 

 the tenth. But the great difficulty consists in the se- 

 cond and third Orders of this ninth Class, in which 

 there is really no such insertion of the Corolla as above 

 mentioned * ; and the inferior Germen of Vacdn'nnn 

 is an insurmountable stumbling-block. Nothing could 

 justify, in a professedly natural system, the removing 

 this last genus from the neighbouihood of Erica and 

 Azalea ; and it were better to have met the difficulty 

 by an open avowal, with some contrivance of an ar- 

 tificial nature, making Vacclnium an exception. The 

 true Rhododendm and Encce would go very well into 

 the eighth. Class. It must be observed that their Sta- 

 mens are often hypogynous, really inserted into the 

 Receptacle under the Germen. 



Orel. 49. GUAIACAN^E. " Calyx of one leaf, di- 

 vided in the upper part. Corolla lobed, or deeply di- 

 vided. Stamens inserted therein; sometimes definite, 

 as many, or twice as many, as its segments ; some- 



* Mr. Salisbury has long ago anticipated this remark. Tr, of Linn 

 Soc. v. 8. 12. 



