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lanceolate, cut and toothed ; uiiiheh compound, long-stalked, term- 

 inal, 2 — S-raj-ed ; iracts 1 or none ; i;'ac/t'o/« linear ; flowers whi^.^ 

 or pink; jni it covered with spreading hooked bristles. — Hedges; 

 common. — Fl. July, August. ^Vnnual. 



2. T. Anihriscus (U[)rii;ht Hcdge-Parsle)). — A tall, slender 

 plant, 2 — 3 feet high, \vilh a solid rough stem; hairy, bipinnate 

 liav<:s ; ovate-oblong, cut and toothed leaflets ; long-stalked term- 

 mal 5 — ij-raycd uihbels with several bracts and braeteoles ; flowers 

 small, white or pinkish ; jyuit covered with in,cur\'ed, not hooked, 

 bristles. Hedges ; abundant. — Fl. T'^ily, August. Annual. 



3. T. iioilosa (Knotted Hedge-Parsley). ^^\ ell distinguished 

 from all other British umbelliferous plants by its prostrate stem, 

 its very small, almost globular, simple, lateral, and nearly sessile 

 umbels of small pinkish-white flotcers, and by the outer p-iiits in 

 each umbel being covered with hooked bristles, while the inner 

 are warty. — Fl. Alay — July. Annual. 



Ord. XXXV. AR..\LiicE.-E. — The I"vv F.\mily 



Shrubs or trees, often downy with stellate hairs, chiefly tropical, 

 and closely resembling the Umbellifera." in the structure of their 

 flowers, though not partaking of their dangerous properties. 

 Calvx superitir, 5-cleft ; petals 5 — 10 ; stamens, 5 — 10, epigj'nous ; 

 erary 2- or more-chambered, with styles as many as the chambers, 

 and I ovule in each chamber ; fruit generally a berry. Only one 

 species is a native of Britain ; but this one, the Ivv, is so 

 universally diffused as to be familiar to every one. Ginseng, the 

 favourite medicine of the Chinese, is the root of Panax Ginseng, 

 a member of this Order; and their celebrated Rice-paper is the 

 pith of Fdtsia fapyrifera, a native of F'ormosa, also belonging to 

 the Aralidcea;. 



I. Heder.\ (Ivy). — Climbing shrubs; /coi'm exstipulate, simple, 

 scattered: flowers ni simple umbels, 5-merous, polysvmmetric ; 

 berrv 5-chambered, 5-seeded, with a parchment-like endocarp 

 linint: each chamber ; albumen ruminate. (Name the Classical 

 Latin name of the plant.) 



I. H. Helix (Common I\t). — A woody plant with a stem some- 

 times 10 inches in diameter, trailing or climbing by adventitious 

 simple rootlets; leaves evergreen, leathery, dark green, glossy, 

 and distinctly veined above, 5-lobed on the climbing stem, ovate 

 and undivided on the free upper branches : umbels confined to 

 the upper free branches, globose, simple, ;downy with stellate 

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