SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 



20. Anem'one, [Page 782.] Cahjx petaloid, of five or many 



pieces. Corolla wanting. Capsules single seeded, in- 

 serted into a thickened hemisplioerical receptacle. Invo- 

 lucre uaore or less remote from the flower. 



** Calyx of five pieces. Corolla of five to ten petals, 



21. Ado'NIS, [Page 785.] Calyx of five pieces. Petals five to 



ten, the claw withoitt a nectariferous gland. Capsules 

 small, single seeded. 



22. Ra.nun'c0lus, [Page 786.] Calyx of three to five pieces. 



Petals five to many, the claw with a nectariferous gland, 

 naked, or furnished with a scale. Carpels numerous, 

 ovate, sub-compressed with a mucronated apex, smooth, 

 striated, tuberculated, or spinous and collected into a head. 



Class 14. Didynamia. — 14 Stamens, two longer 

 than the other two. 



Order I. Gymnospermia. 

 Fruit four, angular, nut-like, [single seeded, capsules with the 

 style in the middle at the bottom of the calyx. Nat. Ord. 

 Labiate. Juss. 



Tribe I. Menthoidej^. Benth. Lab. Corolla sub-campamc- 

 late or funnel-shaped, the limb four or five-cleft, nearly regular. 

 Stamens distant, straight. 



1. Mentha, [Page 797.] Calyx equal, five toothed, its mouth 

 naked, or rarely villous. Corolla funnel-shaped, the 

 limb four-cleft, nearly equal, the upper segment emar- 

 ginate, its tube short. Stamens distant. Anthers with 

 parallel cells. Filaments naked. 



Tribe II. SATUREiNEiE. Benth. Lab. Corolla two lipped, the 

 upper one nearly plane. Stamens distant, and either spreading 

 or curved beneath the upper lip of the corolla. 



2. Thy'mus, [Page 804.] Flowers in whorled capitate racemes 



Calyx tubular, ten ribbed, two lipped, the upper lip three 

 toothed, the lower one bifid, throat hairj. Corolla with 

 the upper lip straight, notched, the lower trifid, tube naked. 



3. Ori'ganum, [Page 805.] Flowers in angular spicated whorls, 



imbricated with bracleas. Calyx five toothed, or obliquely 

 cut, or entire. Corolla with the upper lip straight, 

 notched, the lower trifid, tube naked. 



