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which has a certain reputation for the cure of warts. The stems 
are straight, branchy, pubescent, being covered with long patu- 
ous hairs scattered over it. The leaves have from three to seven 
lobed oval segments, the lobes notched and crenulate, glaucous 
below. The flowers, which are yellow, are disposed in simple 
umbels, differing remarkably from those of the Poppy in the 
structure of the pistil. This organ, in reality, is composed of a 
versilocular ovary, having only two parietal placentie, surmounted 
by a short style with bilobate stigma. The fruit is a linear cap- 
sule, and opens with two valves which detach themselves from 
the base to the summit; leaves persistent, the frame formed by 
placentz. 
The seeds seem, besides other remarkable peculiarities, to be 
provided with a little white cellular excrescence like a crest. 
There is still in this family the Eschscholtzia Californica, a peren- 
nial plant with a large solitary flower of a golden yellow colour, 
closing itself up when it rains, the sepals of which, coherent at 
the base, detach themselves in one piece after the fashion of a 
little pointed hat. 
, BERBERIDS. 
Hypogynous exogens with monodichlamydeous flowers, un- 
Symmetrical in the ovary ; placentz, sutural, parietal, or axile ; 
stamens definite, minute; embryo enclosed in a large quantity of 
hard fleshy albumen. Seventy-nine genera, six hundred and four 
—, 
epsieneeei i roe parietal Hantaties and stamens pvoaldt 
Phe re sometim pei , or fa Fe num’ and withering. CLVII. Droseracee. 
zlandular hairs, the irritability of which reaches um. in 
Catchtly Dionea), uliar ! ie 
Herbac 
prcie cs naw with brittle stems and a watery juice, having 
eregular ses pepo a Seah white, or yellow; resesbee pla- 
> ene Li two 
i ropes e petals ; four hypogynous, or six, in two parcels, 
_ Eq¢en00 shrae or or herbaceous perennials, for the most part hairless; 
tine 2 spiny with regular symmetrical flowers ; sutural placentae ; 
below. 
opposite the petals, and’ equal in number, with recurved anthers CLIX. Berberidaceee 
Symmetrical flowers arran, in thyrses, umbells or pours . 
axle placenta stamens opposite oy eypertns anthers opening longitu- OLX. Vitacess. 
ore genoUS trees or shrubs, with regular etrical flowers, terminal ; 
ve i. eet ee ; stamens alternate, with aged OU ee 
2 Bie Mpr fs imbricated petals. The CLXI. Pittosporacere. 
Exogenous ctorvaeag ind or climbing shrubs, with tumid separate joints, ; 
chiefl 
ian Cia 9 Australia, a few only occurring in Africa, the Pacific 
China, 
tan "peed Japan, and Madeira; many of them are resinous; some of 
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