Epicynous ExoGeEns. 
The term Epigynous—derived from em, on, and yvvn, the ovary 
—alludes to the position of the stamens and other outer floral 
appendages in respect to that organ. When the stamens are placed 
on the ovary, their insertion is said to be epigynous, which gene- 
rally indicates the complete adhesion of the tube of the calyx 
to the ovary through its whole length, or to the style or disc, as 
in the case of the Umbellifere. This and bi-sexual flowers are 
the most distinctive mark of this sub-class. It includes many 
important natural groups and orders, beginning with 
THE CAMPANALS, 
probably the most extensive natural group in the whole Vegetable 
World. 
ee ous plants or under-shrubs, with simple, almost always alter- 
nate leaves, without stipules; flowers single, in racemes, spikes, or 
panicles, henge & blue or white; calyx superior, five-lobed; corolla 
monopetalous, inserted into the top of the calyx; — s ins erted 
into the calyx} ovary two. or more celled ; free or half-u 
naked stigma, 
Herbaceous or shrabhy plants, oe leaves without stipules ; 
flowers axillary or valvate; termin alyx ; five-lobed corolla, irre- 
gular, Sisnopelsions, cape ee by re Bas ded ‘ pene inserted alter- 
nately with the lobes of the corolla; ovary two or more celled; 
TS syngenesious, 
CCLXVI. Campanulacee. 
CCLXVII. Lobeliacex. 
ggceetion eous, rarely shrubby, plants, with scattered, often lobed 
leaves; flowers distinct. ull hire sores calyx superior; corolla 
LX VIII, crag 
_ superior ; ee five, eyer oto segments of the corolla; ve 
ope nicieaad more 
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Fete ahd Eat 
—— lants ! tener ne with scattered, rnin ‘ 
entire, ves ; flowers es, racemes, or corym yx CLXIX. Stylidiacee. 
adherent ; coro onopetalous, ga Sc stamens two, united . 
with the _ see a tea 
Annual or herbs, sometimes twining leaves in rosettes ; : : 
‘fowes Seexealy cn pee superior; ovary cabal led; corolla imbri- t CCLXX. Valerianacex 
cated; anthers free ; ovale pendulons, without albumen. 
Pesce poll woah aceite mag with opposite whorled leave 4) e : oh @ ae 
arrang: wea rape ag c; Cal erent ; corolla mono- ‘LX XI. Dipsacace®. = 
pelos, a pantie ae the calyx; Tormey one-celled ; anthers re ; : if 
ule pendu 
Herbaceous shine leaves alternate, a: 5 in 
heads; calyx superior, of | five ‘unequal parts e-celled ; t CCLXXIL peer ao 
corolla ane: seeds 
Herbaceous plants pasate chicsin or opposite leaves, without 
PP ado flowers unisexual or or hermayhrodite calyx superior ; — Dscemaserss comps. 
Monopetalous, valvate ; ovary one-c ; stamens equal in 
to the teeth of the corolla, 
The Cusine or Bell-shaped Flowers, inhabit the ah : 
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