276 BOTANY. 
and Choripetale, however, furnish many fine flowers which 
have long been favorite ornaments in gardens and con- 
servatories. Thus the Verbenas, Phloxes, Heliotropes, 
Primroses, Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Heaths, Bellflowers, 
Honeysuckles, and_ great numbers of Composites may be 
taken to represent the ornamental members of the Gamo- 
petale. And so the Passion-flowers, Roses, Lupines, Wis- 
tarias, Mallows, Camellias, Pinks, Violets, Mignonettes, 
Poppies, Water-lilies Buttercups, and Columbines may be 
taken as representatives of the ornamental Choripetale. 
Fie, 153.—A Water-lily (Nelumbium luteum). One third natural size. 
554. Economically the Apetale, Gamopetale, and the 
Choripetale are of very different rank. Thus while the 
first supplies us with very little food aside from the floury 
seeds of Buckwheat and the oily nuts of the Hickories, 
Walnuts, Hazels, Chestnuts, and a few others, it furnishes 
us the great bulk of our hard-wood timber in the wood of 
the Elms, Hackberries, Walnuts, Hickories, Oaks, Beeches, 
Chestnuts, Birches, Willows, Poplars, and Plane-trees. To 
