NATURAL ARRANGEMENT. 



529 



16D4 Prunella L. 





j4 



1695 Clebnia L. 







1 



1G93 Scutellaria L 



•0 



28 



76 SkWia. L. 



•10 



78 



379. Tribe 6. 



Phasie**-. 





1696 Pr&sium /. 



380. Tribe?. OcYMoiRE.t 

 lig. 0. herb. 5. f 4^ ft, 

 S-ISl Mosch/jsma ^cAA. 

 3J83 Cbleus /,om. 



1687 O'cymum L. 4 



1688 Lumnltzera Jac. 



1689 Plectr&iithus Herit. 



3.382 Acroc<!phalus Benth. 



3'>84 Anisochlluii 



1662 Pycn<j8tachys Poir. 



1756 AloUftnthus 



1661 HyptisJrtf. 



1692 Prostanth^ra LaA. 



381. Order t XLIII VEUBENATE.il 

 Genera 29, Specks 217; Hot-house Species 141 ; Green-house Species 47 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 3 ; 

 //arrfi^ Herbaceous Species 26. t ft- i £ 12^ ft. ; ^0 feet 

 A mixture of weeds and showy herbs, of humble creeping plants and of lofty timber trees. Some of the 

 Vitexes and Clerodendrums are handsome shrubs : AloJ'sirt is esteemed for the fragrance of its flowers, and 

 Holmski'-ld/fl for the refulgent scarlet of its enlarged calyxes. Ttctona prwluces the famous Indian teakwood. 

 No properties of consequence have been attributed, by mctiical men, to any plant of the order, those formerly 

 ascribed to the vervain and chaste-tree l)eing now disregarded. The speciis are natives of waysides in Europe, 

 and of woods and barren plains in the tropics. Cuttings, divisions, and seeds. 



1752 ClerodtJndrum L. 



1753 Volkamfena L. 

 360 .l^giphila L. 

 351 Callican)a L. 



1743 Fitex L. 



1744 Chloanthes R. Br. 

 nsn Premna L. 



1754 Holmski61dia Retz. 



1755 P^trea L. 

 51 H6sta Jac. 



52 Comiit;a L. 



1736 Gmelina L. 



1758 C'itharexylum L. 



1759 Duranta L. 

 1730 Amasbnw L. 

 1738 Lantkna L. 



1748 Spiclmann/a Med. 



554 Tectona L. 



1747 Str«?ptium Rox. 



1746 Pfiva Adan. 



79 Ghinm Schreb. 



1757 Tamonia Aub. 



68 Stachytirpheta Vahl 



174:3 ZapJi/j/a J. 



1739 Aloysia Or. 1 

 1749 Terbt-na L. •« 



1740 Lfppia L. 



1735 Hebenstreitfa L. 



1742 5elkgo L. 



S82. Order CXLIV. MYOPO'RIN^. 



Genera 4, Species 18 ; Hot-home Species 2; Green-house Species 16; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0- 1 feet ; f feet ; ^ feet. 



South Sea and New Holland shrubs, with scarcely any hair. The leaves are simple, alternate, or opposite, 

 with no stipula*. The flowers, scarlet, white, or blue, axillary without hracteae. These are very near Verbe- 

 nicea;. Stenochllus is the handsomest genus of the order : the Avicennias are shore plants, growing in the 

 place of the mangroves, and shooting their long roots to a great distance among the mud, sometimes to 

 the length of six feet along tlie surface before they fix themselves. Their medicinal properties, if any, 

 are unknown. Cuttings. 



1761 Myoporum Forst. ( 1763 B6nt/a L. 



1762 Stenochllus R. Br. 1751 Avic^nnm L. 



383. Order CXLV. ACANTHA^CEiE. 



Genera 18, Species 168 ; Hot-house Species 144; Green-house Species 18 ; Hardy Ligneous Species 0; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 0. f feet ; ^ 7 feet ; ^0 feet. 

 These are known by the elastic dehiscence of their capsules, and the hooked processes of the seefls. They 

 are almost entirely tropical herbs or shrubs, with the pubescence, if any, simple or capitate, but never stellate. 

 Their leaves are opposite, occasionally arranged in fours, simple and undivided, or very seldom lobed. The 

 flowers are either in imbricated heads or 0{>en racemes, always enclosed in tlieir bractea; ; and are white, blue 

 yellow, scarlet, or purple. Some of the species are very showy, but few of them are cultivated commonly ; a 

 large proportion are mere weeds. The I'hunbergias are fine climbers, and the .Acanthus mollis, the foliage 

 of which gave rise to the classical acanthus of architecture, is, perhaps, except Morinrt p^rsica, one of the most 

 interesting of hardy herbaceous plants. It is also one of the few species to which any medicinal properties are 

 ascribed, being used sometimes as an emollient by reason of its mucilage. Justic/a biflura is employed in Egypt 

 as a poultice, J. Ecbblium as a diuretic, and J. pectorklis as a vulnerary. Cuttings, seeds, and division. 



1722 yic&nthus L. 



1723 Blepharis J. 

 1734 Thunberg/a L. 

 1725 Barlfer/a L. 



1728 Hvgrophila R. Br. 

 1727 Ru^llia L. 



1729 J516chum J. 



1731 Aphel^ndra R. Br. 



1732 Geissom^ria R. Br. 



1733 Crossandra Sal. 

 1126 Phaylopsis J. 

 1724 Lepid^gathis JV. 



56 ElytrJlria Mx. 



60 Nelsonia R. Br. 



58 Just'icia L. 



59 Dicliptera Vahl 



57 Hypoestes Sol. 



61 Er&nthemum R. Br. 



584. Order CXLVI. OROBANCHE^iE. 



Genera 2, Species 7 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house Species ; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 1. f feet ; £4|feet ; ^ feet. 



Leafless parasites on roots, with brown or colorless scaly stems and flowers. 



1770 Lathrae^a L. •Oil 1764 Orob&nche L. •O 6 



385. Order CXLVII. LENTIBULA^RI^E. 

 Genera 2, Species 9 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house Species 2; Hardy Ligneous Species ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 7. 1 feet 2 feet ; ^2 feet 

 Very pretty interesting aquatics, which are scarcely susceptible of cultivation, except in a few cases. Tlie 

 Pinguiculas are either European or North American, inhabitating elevate<l patches in bogs : the Utricularias 

 are floaters, found in most countries in marshes and little rills : their flowers, are white, yellow or blue. Offtets 

 66 Pinguicula L. •O 4 | 67 Utriculiria L. 3 



386. Order CXLVIII. PRIMULAXE^ 

 Genera 17, Species 143 ; Hot-house Species ; Green-house Species 14J ; Hardi/ Ligneous Species ; 

 Hardy Herbaceous Species 115, J feet ; £ H feet ; ^ 3 feet 

 Beautiful dwarf herbs, inhabiting the mountains and meadows of all parts of the world, but especially 

 in the northern hemisphere. Nothing can be more lovely than the little delicate alpine Primulas, Androsaces, 

 Aretias, and Soldanellas, with their little mmlest blossoms, sometimes rivalling the whiteness of the surrounding 

 snow, sometimes emulating the intense blue of the empyrean, as if the one had borrowed its hues from 

 heaven, and the other from the spotless mantle of the earth. HottbmVi is a naiad of the stream, inhabiting 

 several parts of England, in ponds and ditches, which are enlivened for many a month with its rosy 

 flowers, peeping from among the sedge and under-grass by which it is en. ironed. All the genera are familiar 

 to gardeners, except Centunculus and Schwtnck/Vz, of which the former is singular in the order, as being 



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