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xogenous trees and shrubs, with distinct carpels, no stipules, a valvate 
cor nie and ruminate albumen; leaves alternate, wegen entire, without 
stipules ; F grub inns green or br TOWN, i axillary and solitary. The tropics ar Saaeee. 
of the old world a 
Exogenous trees, pores ee or undershrubs, rarely herbaceous plants, 
ena ping 7 digas or panicles, often yellow; stamens hypo- 
gynow ing paper carpels distinct, no stipules, eyhigs 
corolla, homoyeneous albumen, and arillate s eeds. The habitat of th 
order is Pace v a, India, and equinoctial Aaeties, and in pence 
ca afew s) with. 
CLULI. Dilleniacer. 
yx an 
rT spurs 
while sepals pen rtp e blended t tage r in Caltha and Anemone, CLIV. Ranunculaces. 
d the spurred and renter ae — assimilated in he myo arctic 
Species, Ranunculus acaulis. the order i is found in Europe, 
one-seventh in North America, one-twenty-fifth in in India, one-seventeenth 
in a An Aenea, and a few species are found, according to De Candolle, 
in Aust 
Exogenous herbaceous perennials, with fibrous roots, inhabiting bogs, 
oars radicle, a hollow ines. sg petiole, : sort of pitcher with 2 
lated laminae, fitting like eas eg nsolidated, with perman 
calyx and axile pla oe ‘The. sin ar flower, gy the dae sedtie 
flower, from its tabular lea e bogs of North 
America, while analogous sported inhabit the woods of Guayana. 
Herbaceons, with some shrubby exogens, often with a milky juice, 
with one, two, or, three parted flower, consolidated carpels, sri 
is. fall 
CLV. Sarraceniacee. 
cde ed thee hata a Burges hey range Bow boss Dopo 
inceu in the versotwe Sop ee “ovary. with 
many disti while the ovules are distributed over the whole surface 
of the dissepiments, as in the Water Li Lilies, 
Lanals—so called from rana, a frog, from many of the species 
inhabiting humid places usually the haunt of that animal—are 
characterised by the presence of a distinct calyx and corolla, 
sometimes so blended together, however, as to be indistinguishable ; 
while in other instances there is no corolla, and occasionally both 
are absent. In general there is an indefinite number of stamens 
but there are exceptions to that rule, asin the Bocagea, among 
the Anonacem, in which the stamens and carpels are definite. 
The Macnor1acex include some of the finest trees and shrubs 
in the world. The typical Magnolia grandiflora is an evergreen 
tree of North America, which sometimes attains the height of 
Seventy feet. Its ovate, oblong coriaceous leaves—the upper sur-_ 
faces of a pale green, shining and glossy, the under rusty, ie 
white and erect flowers, with nine to twelve expanding petals— 
constitute it one of the noblest trees of the American forest. There . 
are many species of the genus, of which this is the grandest _ - 
example. Se 
CLVI. Papaveracee. 
Other plants of the order are remarkable for the be ity of 
their flowers. suieetemenitegs tulipifera, the Tulip Tree, with — 
