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and Choripetalse, however, furnish many fine flowers Vhich 

 have long been favorite ornaments in gardens and con- 

 servatories. Thus the Verbenas, Phloxes, Heliotropes, 

 Primroses, Azaleas, Rhododendrons, Heaths, Bellfljowers, 

 Honeysuckles, and great numbers of Composites may be 

 taken to represent the ornamental members of the Gamo- 

 petalse. And so the Passion-flowers, Roses, Lupines, Wis- 

 tarias, Mallows, Camellias, Pinks, Violets, Mignonettes, 

 Poppies, Water-lilies Buttercups, and Columbines may he 

 taken as representatives of the ornamental Choripetalse. 



Fio. 153.— A Water-lily (Nelumbium luteum). One third natural size. 



554. Economically the Apetalse, Gamopetalse, and the 

 Choripetalse 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 



