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BOTANY. 



A Peruvian tree, Leonia glycycarpa, produces edible pulpy fruits as 

 large as a peach. 



Order Cistacese.— Herbs and shrubs with actinomorphic flowers. 

 Species about sixty, mostly of temperate climstes. 



A shrubby Giatua from the South of Europe is common in green- 

 houses. 



Some of our native species of Frostweed (Helianthemurn) and Hud- 

 sonia are pretty. 



Order BesedaceBS. — Herbs (a few shrubs) with alternate leaves, 

 mostly zygomorphic flowers, indefinite stamens, and seeds without 

 endosperm. Species twenty to twenty-five, confined to the Mediter- 

 ranean region and South Africa, -with the exception of two or three spe- 



FlGS. 528-30,— ImjSTBATIONS OF CRCCU'ERa: (WAIirLOWBE). 



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PlO. 528. 



Fio. 630. 



Fig. 559. 



Pig. 628.— Flower diagram. Fip. 529.— Section of Flower. Magnifled. 



Fig. 530. — Andrcficium. Magnified. 



cies which reach India, one of which {Oligomeria subulata) extends to 

 California. 



Reaeda odorata is the well-known Mignonette, probably a native of 

 the Eastern Mediterranean region. 



The foliage of B. luteola, an annual of Europe called Dyers' Weed 

 or Weld, furnishes an important yellow dye. 



Order Capparidacese. — Herbs, shrubs and trees with mostly alter- 

 nate leaves, actinomorpliic flowers, mostly indefinite (never tetradyna- 

 mous) stamens, and seeds without endosperm. Species 300, mostly 

 tropical or sub-tropical. An acrid volatile principle prevails in the 

 order. 



Cwpparis apinosa, a stiff prickly-branched shrub of the Mediterranean 

 region, is extensively cultivated in Europe for its unopened flower 

 buds, which preserved in vinegar constitute the condiment known as 

 Capers. 



Cleome integrifoUa, a native of the Western Mississippi Valley, and 



