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ing;h>s. pinnate or ternate : C. graveolens, fl. yellow, 1^' wide, scented. 

 IJecid. 15°. Thibet. C. Viiyrna, sep. leathery; fl. bell-shaped, pur- 

 ple, V-i' long. Decid. 15°. Ohio to Car., Fla. C. reiikdata, fl. 

 bell-shaped, purple, large. Decid. 8°. Pla., S. C. b. % herbs, If. 

 l-foliolnte: C. miegnfolia, a. 'b\ue,mong. 2° hi^h. Huna;ary C 

 oeAroZewm, silky ; fl. yellow. 12'-18' high. N. Y. to Ga. B^ Peduncle 

 many-flowered ; fls. small, usually white ; panicled. Lvs. pinnate or 

 ternate. C. ereeta, % herb, 3°-4° high. Austria. Climbing shrubs: 

 C. Flammula, fls. fragrant. Decid. 20°. Prance. C. Vitalba, Old 

 Man's Bearp, Traveller's Joy, Virgin's Bower ; fls. fragrant. 

 Decid. 20°-30°. S. Eur., N. Af C. virginidna, near Vitalba, but 

 J> 9. 10°-15°. Can. to Gulf. Sev. other Arn. spec, and many var. 

 of foreign spec, in cultivation. 



SYNOPTICAL TABLE OF THE VEGETAL KINGDOM. 



Numerical estimates of Orders, Genera, and Species vary, as different 

 (and equally good) authorities unite or separate them. All estimates, 

 however, are approximate ; the flora of the globe is not yet half ex- 

 plored. No settled estimates in Cryptogamia have been made except 

 in the Pern Alliance ; this most important part of botanical work is 

 yet to he done. The data below are conjectural ; but at any rate they 

 are within the safe limits of understatement. The estimates in the 

 Manual are after De Jussieu, Le Maout et Decaisne, "W. J. Hooker, 

 Lindley, Balfour, Berkeley, Miiller, Eabenhorst, and other high au- 

 thorities. The estimates given below for Phanerogamia are compiled 

 from the Oenera Planiarum of Bentham and Hooker. By comparison 

 with the data of the Manual, the student will see what the differences 

 are, and that they arise mainly from slightly changed arrangements. 

 Por example : the Orders here italicized are made Tribes or Genera of 

 Lili^cese by Bentham and Hooker ; the genus Leitneria (consisting of 

 (^ 9 apetalous shrubs of the Gulf coast of Florida and Texas), long 

 tpssed between Myrioacese and Euphorbiacese, is made an Order and 

 placed near Juglandacese ; B^lanops (consisting of (^ 9 apetalous 

 trees and shrubs of New Caledonia) is also made an Order and placed 

 next to EuphorbiaceaB. Other and like changes have been made, but 

 there is not space to name them here. In the Synopsis given below, 

 the numerals in the first column refer to Orders ; in the second, to 

 Genera; in the third, to Species. Orders are grouped, as in the 

 Manual, in their respective alliances. 



The student will please bear in mind that the work of which this 

 brief Manual is the Second Part is not a local Flora, but a Class-Book 

 of Botany treating of all the known Orders in the world, and that 

 therefore only an outline of each Order could possibly be given within 

 such limits. Local details must be sought in local Floras at home and 

 abroad; and the author modestly trusts that the search will be the 



