SYNOPTICAL TABLE. 5 
ORDER 
Plants not parasitical, nor the fruit baccate. 
Flowers corymbose, paniculate, or sub-capitate........ VALERIANEX. 44 
Flowers aggregated in a common receptacle, and sur- 
rounded by a many leaved involucre. 
Anthers united into a tube, syngenesious............ COMPOSITEM. 46 
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Fruit two or many seeded. 
Calyx free, not united to the ovary........... AGOO GIO ... PORTULACEE. 33 
Calyx adnate to the ovary. 
Fruit an akene, or a dry or fleshy berry. 
Flowers moncecious or dicecious, placenta parietal .. CURCURBITACER. 32 
Flowers hermaphrodite, the placenta not parietal. 
Herbs with whorled leayes and square stems ...... STELLATE. 43 
Shrubs with rounded stems. 
Anthers opening by pores at the apex .......... VACCINACER. 52 
Anthers opening by longitudinal chinks ........ CAPRIFOLIACER. 42 
Fruit capsular. 
Stamens five. 
Corolla with a deep longitudinal fissure above .... LoBELIACEs. 48 
Corolla regularly divided, five-cleft .......... .seee+ CAMPANULACER. 47 
** Stamens inserted on the corolla, which arise from the torus; the calyx not being 
adherent to the ovary. 
+ Fertile stamens, two to four. 
Fruit consisting of a four lobed ovary, apparently of four 
TIAKCOMS CES sere eleeieieleteeparieiieleieielesieliet see. LABIATER, 63 
Fruit not four lobed. 
+ Fertile stamens, two. 
Corolla spurred ..... oe ctoorereurelsrers Michiciclereldeleherereleiietsielere) LAE NETS UG A REN sin Ge 
Corolla not spurred, sometimes inflated. 
VOR Seyerereretettreiteieisieterereiicrelcletarcrsrersters seeeecceeseseess> SCROPHULARINER. 62 
Shrubs or trees. 
Corolla regular .......... Milulclelsiorroersenieeiciceeerien OLEACE ate 54 
7+ Fertile stamens, four. 
Corolla regular; SCATIOSO.... ccc... cecevecscccerscesses PDLANTAGINE AS, 
Corolla irregular coloured. 
Fruit drupaceous, or baccate...o......sseesseeee+ss+ VERBENACER. 
Fruit capsular. 
Leafless parasitical plants .........- sveceveceevess OROBANCHER. 61 
Leafy green, not parasitical plants. 
Seeds with albumen ; embryo not foliaceous .... SCROPHULARINER. 62 
++ Stamens generally five (sometimes more). 
Fruit follicular, the two cells distinct, or cohering by their 
BUPINAS ci eve ce ccc s cee sles elsslotelteacishtslsislerseein: a APOCYNIE dae 55 
Fruit not follicular. 
Fruit consisting of a two or four lobed ovary, apparently 
of two naked seeds or nuts..........auversss+++++ BORAGINER. 59 
Fruit a capsule. 
Stamens opposite the lobes of the corolla...........-.. PRIMULACER. 66 
Stamens alternate with the lobes of the corolla. 
Carpels numerous, distinct.............2sseeeeeeeees CRASSULACER, 35 
Carpels concreted into a one or many celled capsule 
or berry. 
