AVEWS. — For notes on " Geuni " see synopsis. p. 101. 



GENISTA, fnnii the Celtic f/e", a small bush, or from the Latin 

 ffoi", in allusion to the iiliability of the branches. N.O., Fabacccc^ Legu- 

 minous or Papiliouaeeous plants. LiNNiBAN : 16, 3£o/n/drIp/ii/t ; 6, Beca/idriff. 

 — This grand order of plants, useful, poisonous, beautiful, various, occasionally 

 wonderful, will always reward the student for a careful study of details, 

 because of their coustancy to the typical idea, and their curious variations in 

 expressing it. They generally have compound, but some have simple, leaves. 

 They have irregular hermaphrodite flowers, which are sometimes apparently 

 so regular that it is impossible for the young student to quickly apprehend 

 their morphological relationships. The corolla is likened to a butterfly in 

 the term papilionaceous; usually it consists of five petals, one of which, 

 being larger than the rest, and in a dominating position, is called the 

 standard, two others on either side are called the wings, and two below, 

 which are united, are called the keel. The reduction of these to equality, 

 as in the mimosa, is a puzzling character. The fruit is always a pod, but it 

 may be a pea or a beau or a drupe, iu which case the differences are of some 

 account. jk 105, 



CLARKIA, named after Captain Clarke, the traveller. N.O., 

 i>i: ■(jriivi'ic. LiNN^T^AN : 2, IVninih-'ia ; 1, Mu)togiiniii. — -The Clarkias are 

 related to the epib.ibiums and evening primroses. They are annual plants, 

 with linear or lanceolate leaves, and solitary or racemose flowers which are 

 variously four divided. The capsule is liuf ar, many seeded ; seeds neither 

 ^ilumose nor winged. p. 109. 



TjROLLITJS, from tvul, the German for round, in ;i,llusion to the 

 globular flowers. X.O., IlauuiivHJaccic, ox Qxo^i.QQt^. Lin^'-i-:;an : 13, Poll/- 

 (itidrlii : 6, Fohjf/ijn'ut. — The globe flowers are closely allied to the hellebores ; 

 they are all hardy, yellow-flowered, and partial to loamy moist soils, p. IV'i. 



FUCHSIA. Named after Leonard Fuchs, a German botanist. X.O., 

 i)naqracec€. Linn^an : 8, Ovtandria ; \^ Mi)>ii>fjiin\a. — This small order consists 

 of herbs or shrubs, with opposite or alternate leaves. It is a very natural 

 order of polypetalous exogenous plants, which, in their more complete 

 condition, are certainly known by their inferior ovary, and by all the parts 

 of the flower being four, or a constant multiple of that number. Thus in 

 Juss'uea graiidijiora there are four sepals, four petals, twice four stamens, 

 four stigmas, four cells to the ovary, and the fruit when ripe bursts into four 

 valves. The species characterised by this peculiarity are chiefly herbaceous 

 plants, inhabiting the more temiDerate parts of the world, and have white, 

 yellow, or red flowers, such, for example, as the great genus of Oenotheras, or 

 evening primroses, and the epilobiums, or willow-herbs, which are so common 

 as wild plants. It is only in the fuchsia, which has a succulent fruit and 

 fonns an approach to Miirtaefa', that a woody structure is met with. The 

 enchanter's nightshade {Circan) is a member of this order. p. 117. 



HEPATICA. The name refers to the lobed leaves, which maj' be 

 likened to the liver in outline. ]S".0., Jiaiunicidacecc. Linx.^^an : 13^ 2'oii/- 

 andria ; 6 J'oli/f/i//'/".— The hepaticas are closely related to the anemones, 

 and confoi-m to the conditions that suit those plants. /). 121. 



BELL-FLOWER, or CAMPANULA. N.O., Cxnipanxlaem. 

 LiNNJBAN : 5, Fei'taiidrU) ; 1, J/f//'^'//y^/''/. — There appears to be always 



