NATURAL AURANGEMENT. 



tl. T»lb* 1. NKtfM»o''NU. 



ibis Stlimttimm J. 



a Tribe a. SyumMu^m. 

 tig U. k<rh li. £: fort. 



KurJaU- Sal 

 l.'oJi iVvrnphw*a .Vrrik. •? 

 l:Vi7 A'ui»hmr Sw. 



C& Orok* X. SARRAC KNIET.fL 



1, Sfttcii-M 4 ; HotJkotuf Sp^irtO; GrmtJkmsf Uptrirt 4 ; Hardy Lignroms Sp<aVs ; 

 Harttp Hri hiic<\>ut Sfxcift 0. f ft>ct ; f U fti'l ; *, II fpct, 

 TIhIi tvnarkaMr for thr tinpiUr form of thrir IravM, whirh arc tubular and hold watrr, and (omc specie* 

 hawHdt or t ''. It II allrK(\i, khruik and rliwr over thr mouth of thr tulM> in dry wrathrr, to a« to 



tfwnm% the . ; 'ir water. Thr ordrr it fhirfly diduiKuikhiHl iVoni Paji-ix rrhcra- and Nyr.iphe.\i-ra' in 



IMITiaff*br< « vliKina. It r«in>iit« only of one gitiui, rontaitiini; six siKvit>«, all iiUiabiting the 



1S55 Sarrar^nid L. 



Sti rioN II. L\irj>clla stJitary or connalc ; Placfntrt parietaL 



£4. OnoKK XI. PAPAVEKAHE.fl 



Gfntra 12, Specie* f& \ Hot-house Species 2 ; Green-house Species 1 ; Hardy I.igneout Species 0; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species Oi.fi) feet ; £ 18 ft. ; ,^0 lit t 



Thwo plant* arc better known for thrir tneilicinal proi>ertir« than for thrir Ije.iuty. JJome of them are th» 

 ronmion jn-stj of con> lirld*. and with faain have been diMeminati'd over all the wurliL SanKuinlbria is a neat 

 little Anu-ruan ^»Unt well known for it* crimson juice, and the emetic purgative |K)wer« of Ms root*.. The 

 peculiar jxiwer ol the p»»ppy i», a« it well known, narcotic ; a property which |n'rv.vli-s all the older, although 

 in a les» intense degnv in all than in the officinal somniferum, from which exclutively the drug opium ia 

 obtained. I'he Mexicans use the exprt.-!>«ed oil of the teeds of Argem5nc mexic^ia for poliahing furniture. 

 Divifion, tceiU, or cuttingly 



ISM Pap^Tcr 

 1554 Argemone Ton. 

 1553 Mccon6{i«i» fig. 

 Hunncra^'a SvL 



•38 

 4 

 •1 



1547 Sanguin?»ria L. 

 14i^J Bocc.nia I* 

 I4iJ3 Macleiyo R. Br. 

 155U Riim^na Med. 



SJ70 Esch«ch<'.ltwVi Cham. 1 



1551 Glancium Torn, •? 



1549 t'helidbnium Bauk. •S 



408 //ypecoum L. 3 



23. Order XII. FUMARIATE.E. 



Genera 6, Species 44 ; HotJtouse Species ; Green-Mouse Species ; Hardv Ligneous Spea'es ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 44. J feet ; £ 13 ft, ; ^ "feet 

 Tender herb*, with finely cut leaves and annual rteraB, abounding in a watery juice ; without any appear, 

 •nee of milkiness. They are reckoned slightly diaphoretic and aperient, but their medical properties are 

 trifling. Formerly they were combined with l*apaver.\cesp, from which they are now universally distinguished. 

 The greater part of them are natives of hedges or thickets in the ctK)ler parts of the northern hemisphere ; 

 two are natives of the C^pe of Good Hope. Many of the si>ecies arc beautiful ornaments of the flower-garden. 

 Division or seeds. 



5049 Diclvtra Bore. 9 I 2048 Cvsticapnos Boer. 2 | SM51 Sarcocapnos Dec 1 



5050 Adldmia Kqfi. 1 | iJOtV CorydJdis Dec. ♦^i | 2052 funiAria Tou. ^9 



£a Order Xlll. CRUCITERyE [crujt, a cro&s, fero, to bear; form of corolla). 



Genera SS, Species 761 ; Hot-kouse Species ; Green-house Species 77 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 18 ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 66S. 1 &i d ; ]£ 50 feet ; ^ 3 feet 

 The importance of this order to mankind, and the singular nature of its botanical characters, render it 

 expedient to speak very fully upon it : in which the remarks of the learned M. DecandoUe, who has paid 

 Crucifene particular attention, will be chiefly followed. The order consists wholly of annual or perennial, 

 often biennial, herbs, occasionally assuming a suffrutescent habit ; then, however, never exceeding the height 

 of three feet The roots are either thick and perennial, or annual or biennial and slender, almost always 

 perpendicular and undivided. The young roots are tipped with a little sheath, called the coieorhiza, which is 

 produced by the extended ruptured coat of the epidermis when the rootlet first appears. This is a curious 

 character, and deserv es attention. The stems are round or somewhat angular, branched, and often, even in 

 the annual sjiecies, indurated at the base. The branches proceed from the axills of the leaves, but the upper- 

 most ones are abortive in most cases. The racemes are alw ays opposite 

 to the leaves; sometimes the terminal branch is abortive, when the 

 raceme appears to be terminal ; but this is merely owing to that circum- 

 stance. The leaves are simple, generally radical or alternate, rarely 

 opposite. The flowers are either white, yellow, or purple, or in a 

 few Cape species bright blue. The fruit is called either a siliqua or 

 silicula, the former being a linear pod containing many seeds, the 

 latter a roundish pod containing one or very few seeds, whence this- 



order, which is the same as the Linnean class Tetradynamia, i? 

 divided by Linnsus into two parts, called Siliqubsas and Siliculbsa;. 

 In the seed, the radical and cotyledons are applied to each other in 

 diflTerent ways, from which the' suborders of M. DecandoUe derive 

 their characters. \\'hen the edge of the cotyledons is pressed closed 

 to the radicula, so that a cross section would be as at jig. 5. a, the 

 cotyledons are said to be accumbent, as in all Pleurorhizeae; when 

 the side of the cotyledons is pressed to the rariicula as at b, the former 

 are called incumbent, as in Notorliizeap. If the cotyledons are incum- 

 bent, and at the same time half folded together or conduplicate, 

 as at c, the suborder Orthopliceae is formed; when the cotyledons are incumbent and spirally twisted, so 

 that a section would be as at rf, thev constitute the suborder Spirol6bea ; and finally, when the cotyledons 

 are incumbent, and doubled twice in their length, as at e, we have Diplecolbbea. 



