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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



MYOP OR A CEJE. 



jExogens, with flowers axillary. The calyx five-parted, not 

 falling off. Corolla monopetalous, nearly equal or two-lipped. 

 Stamens four, didymous, with sometimes the rudiment of a fifth. 

 Ovary two or four-celled. Stigma scarcely divided. Leaves 

 simple, sometimes thickly covered with transparent dots. — Shrubs, 

 principally from Australia. 



MYOPOBTJM. 



Gen. Char. (Didynamia Angiospermia.) Calyx five-parted ; co- 

 rolla bell-shaped, with a spreading, nearly equal, five-parted 

 limb ; drupe one or two-seeded. 



Named from the Greek for to shut up and a pore, from 

 the spots on the leaves being like closed pores. Australian 

 evergreen shrubs, most of them having white flowers : as 



parviflorum, montanum, ellipticum, acuminatum, crassifolium, 

 and viscpsum ; debile and diffusum have blue flowers. 



SELAGINACEM 



Exogens, with flowers sessile, spiked, and with large bracts. 

 Calyx spathaceous or tubular, not falling off, with a definite 

 number of teeth or divisions, rarely consisting of two divisions. 

 Corolla tubular, more or less irregular, with five lobes, imbri- 



