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ILLUSTRATIONS OP THE NATURAL ORDERS. 



Petals usually four (rarely tliree or six, occasionally absent), and the 

 stamens as many, or twice as many, inserted into the throat of the 

 calj'x. Ovary commonly four-celled : styles united. Fruit mostly 

 capsular. — Ex. Chiefly an American order ; many are ornamental 

 in cultivation. Fuchsia, remarkable for its colored calyx and ber- 

 ried fruit ; OEnothera (Evening Primrose) ; Epilobium, where the 

 seeds bear a coma ; Ludwigia, which is sometimes apetalous ; and 

 CircEea, where the lobes of the calyx, petals, stamens, cells of the 

 ovary, and the seeds, are reduced to two ; showing a connection with 

 the appended 



822. Subord. Haloragese, which are a sort of reduced aquatic Ona- 

 graceaj, often apetalous : the solitary seeds commonly furnished wath 

 albumen. — Ex. Myriophyllum (Water-Milfoil) and Hippuris (Horse- 

 tail), where the limb of the calyx is almost wanting ; the petals 

 none ; the stamens reduced to a single one, and the ovary to a single 

 cell, with a solitary seed. 



823. Ord. Grossulacese ( Gooseberry Family ). Small shrubs, either 

 spiny or prickly, or unarmed ; with alternate, palmately lobed and 



FIG. 830. The cultivated Gooseberry; a branch in flower. 831. Branch in fruit. 832 

 The caly.x, bearing the petals and stamens, cut away from the sumniit of the ovary (833), and 

 laid open. 834, 835. Sections of the unripe fruit. 836. Jliigmfied seed, -with a conspicuous 

 rhaphe. 837. Longitudinal section of the same, showing the minute embryo at the extrem- 

 ity of the albumen. 



