126 ItUBIACEJE. [Cl. 11. 



a chaffy Common Receptacle, surrounded by a Com- 

 mon Calyx of many leaves." 



Morina, Dipsacus, Scabiosa, fig. 5-7, Knautia, Al- 

 lionia, and Vakriana are the genera, all except the 

 last having aggregate Flowers. 



Ord. 57. RUBIACETE. " Calyx simple, it's limb 

 almost always divided. Corolla regular, mostly tu- 

 bular, with a divided limb. Stamens definite, 4 or 

 5, seldom more, inserted into the tube of the Corolla, 

 alternate with it's segments, and agreeing with them 

 in number. Germen inferior. Style 1, very rarely l l. 

 Stigmas generally 2. Fruit either of 2 single-seeded 

 lobes or grains, not bursting, and resembling naked 

 seeds ; or a capsular or pulpy Pericarp, often of 2 cells, 

 with 1 or many Seeds in each ; sometimes of only 

 1 cell, or of many : it is either crowned with the per- 

 manent Calyx, or naked " (having a scar where the 

 Calyx has been). " Embryo oblong, slender, in a large, 

 horny, lateral Albumen. Stem herbaceous, shrubby 

 or arboreous. Leaves (simple) in a few instances 

 whorled, in most opposite, their Footstalks combined 

 at the base either by a simple sheathing intrafoliaceons 

 Stipula, or a fringed membranous lax one." 



A vast and important Order, which Jussieu has all 

 the merit of having brought into due notice. The pecu- 

 liar stipulation is, in the shrubby genera, a ready mark 

 of distinction. There are eleven Sections, of which the 

 first two might well constitute an Order by themselves; 

 the rest are mostly tropical, with woody Stems. Mr. 



