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perate parts of America, the Cape of Good Hope, and India. 
The fragrant Gales are shrubs or trees of considerable size. The 
EL#AGNACER, or Oleasters, are trees or shrubs of the northern 
hemisphere down to the equator. El@agnus hortensis bears a 
fruit about the size of an olive, which is brought to market in 
Persia. The red drupes of E. conferta and several others are 
eaten in India. The only species growing wild in Britain is 
Hippophae rhamnoides, a spiny shrub with dicecious flowers, and 
small, round, orange-coloured acid berries; it grows on the cliffs 
near the sea; its fruit becomes rather a pleasant preserve when 
sufficiently sweetened. E. augustifolia is one of our most fragrant 
garden plants, filling the air with its perfume, while the dull 
yellow flowers which exhale the delicious fragrance attract little 
attention. 
oot apr ered flowers with one-flowering envelope, single gtd LXXXIII. Stilagin: 
carpels, an large embryo lying in a small quantity of albumen, wi . Stilaginacee. 
Superior radicle, twin ovulés, straight albuminous embryo, two-lobed ee 
anthers, and vertical fissures, 
Po aeons ovule erect and solitary, embryo straight, albuminous, } LXXXIV. Urti 
: cacex. 
id, stipules small and flat in the Nettles. 
rane ee LXXXVv. hylla- 
Radicle inferior, embryo without albumen, plumule many-leaved, large — 4 
erbaceous, rough.stemmed, watery plants, with solitary suspended LXXXVI ia 
ptinge hooked embryo, without albumen, and superior radicle. Hemp : —— iia 
the Hop belong to the order. 
Radicle superior, ovules soli sus umin LXXXVII 
: Di > pended, embryo hooked, alb ous, 2 : 
luice milky. The Mulberry an Fig belong to the order. ; f — 
<a or shrubs, abounding in milky juice, radicle superior, large 
ba volute stipules, ovules solitary, erect or suspended, straight embryo 
en umen. Includes the Bread-fruits. The Upuas tree of Java 
ongs to the family, 
Deciduous trees or shrubs with sheathing stipules, round heads of uni- 
mxual flowers in separate catkins, limpid juive, inferior radicle, albu- 
sate embryo long, no calyx, and minute plumule. The PLANES are LXXXIX. Platanacez. 
pseu gain temperate intertropical climates, resembling the 
» Sometimes called the Plane-tree with us. 
LXXXVIII. Artocarpacee 
The Urricars differ from the preceding group chiefly in the 
absence of catkins, and in some cases the presence of albumen. 
Tn the typical order Urticacex, containing the Nettles, Figs, the 
Hop, the Mulberry, the Hemp, and the celebrated Upas tree, 
© species are widely diffused over every part of the world,—in 
the frozen North, and in the hottest tropical countries. The 
order, as formerly constituted, was nearly synonymous with the 
8toup, but it is now limited to a few genera characterised by 
the causticity of the limpid juice they yield. The stinging effects 
Of the N, ettles, Urtica dioca and U. ureus, will be familiar to most 
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