ISO ENGLISH BOTANY. 



CHiEROPHYLLUM AUREUM. Linn. 

 E. B. 2103. 

 By the side of cornfields between Arbroath and Montrose, 

 Forfarshire, and at Corstorphine, Edinburgh (Mr. G. Don). Not 

 found since. 



CHIEROPHYLLUM AROM ATICUM. Linn. 

 E. E. S. 2G3G. 



By the river Lunan, near Guthrie, Forfarshire (Mr. G. Don). 

 Not found since. 



ORDER XXXIV— ARAL I ACE ^.* 



Shrubs or trees, more rarely herbs, with round stems, in the 

 shrubby species often climbing or adbering to supporting bodies 

 by radicular fibres. Leaves alternate, very rarely opposite, simple 

 or palmately or pinnately (often ternately) compound or decom- 

 pound; petioles generally enlarged at the base, but without evident 

 stipules. Flowers usually greenish, perfect or polygamous, regular, 

 axillary or terminal, in simple umbels or heads, which are disposed 

 in irregular racemes or panicles; umbels frequently with an 

 involucre at the base. Calyx of 5 sepals, completely combined 

 and adnate to the ovary, with the limb reduced to a ring, or 

 5-toothed. Petals 5 or 10, rarely absent, entire, inserted round 

 a flesby disk, which crowns the ovary. Stamens 5. Ovary 

 adherent to the calyx, crowned with a fleshy usually entire 

 epigynous disk, 2- to 5-celled, each cell with a solitary suspended 

 ovule. Styles 2 to 5, distinct or combined, sometimes very short. 

 Fruit commonly a more or less fleshy berry, usually with as many 

 pyrenes or stones as there arc cells ; more rarely dry. Seeds 

 anatropous; albumen copious, usually fleshy ; embryo minute. 



This Order ought probably to be combined with Umbellifero. Dr. Seemann 

 redistributes the genera of TJmbelliferae and Bederaceae (which is in the main equivalent 

 to Araliacese) according as the estivation is imbricated (quincuncial) or valvate: this 



is, however, a purely artificial character, as it removes Crithraum from the I.' ml i 



and is evidently of little value in this group of plants, as iu many others, such as 



lluhiaeeje, Ja.xininaceit, and ('■ciitiauaceSB. 



