CI. IS.] DICOT. COR. POLYP. ST. HYPOG. 135 



Eryngium, fig. 212, is either excluded or over- 

 looked, by Prof. Sprengel, though unquestionably of 

 this natural order. It's simple Umbel is merely 

 condensed into a Capitulum (48 : 6), resembling the 

 Dipsacete, Ord. 56, and Cinarocephalte, Ord. 54, to 

 which last the rigid spinous habit of the herbage ap- 

 proaches. 



CLASS 13. DICOTYLEDONES. COROLLA POLYPE- 

 TALOUS. STAMENS HYPOGYNOUS. 



" Calyx of one or many leaves ; very rarely wanting. 

 Petals hypogynous, that is, inserted under the Pi- 

 stil, definite ; very rarely indefinite ; mostly distinct, 

 sometimes united at the base into a kind of mono- 

 pet alous Corolla; rarely entirely wanting. Sta- 

 mens hypogynous, definite or indefinite, their Fila- 

 ments usually distinct, but sometimes united into a 

 tube, or more rarely collected into several bundles. 

 Anthers distinct, except in " (some species of) " Viola 

 and Bakamina (Impatiens Linn.). Germen supe- 

 rior, in numerous instances single, in some multi- 

 plied. Style one, or several, or wanting. Stigma 1 , 

 or several. Fruit superior, either single, with 1 or 

 many cells, or more rarely multiplied, each separate 

 Pericarp being of 1 cell." 



No trace of connexion or affinity is discernible be- 

 tween this Class and the preceding, either in characters, 

 habit, or qualities. The present is a great polypetalous 

 hypogynous assemblage, of various discordant tribes 



