Order II. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
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3408 Hoary, Leaves linear flat, Calyxes about 3 downy with opened obovate appendages 
3409 Leaves linear somewhat fleshy pubescent. Flowers axillary about 3 together, Cal. with blunt appendages 
3410 Herbaceous very hairy. Leaves linear fleshy, Dorsal spine of cal. straight 
3411 All woolly, Leaves linear fleshy spreading, Cal. in fruit stellate with 5 prickles hooked at end 
3412 Branches diffuse. Leaves lanceolate silky, Calyxes not prickly 
3413 Pubescent, Leaves linear lanceolate ciliated, Cal. in pairs. Appendages very short acute 
§ 1. Leaves flat angular. 
3414 Leaves triangular hastate entire. Spikes compound clustered leafless axillary and terminal 
341.') Leaves triangular toothed. Racemes clustered very upright close to the stem very long and leafless 
3416 Leaves rhomboid-ovate and lanceolate : the lower sinuate toothed. Pan. axillary branched. Stem erect 
3417 Leaves cordate triangular rather obtuse toothed, Racemes erect compound leafy shorter than the stem 
S418 Leaves ovate unequally toothed acute, Racemes branched naked and simple stem erect 
3419 Lvs. ov. uneq. tooth, acute shining. Race, corym. naked shorter than the leaf. Stem branched spreading 
3420 Lvs. triangular ovate obsoletely toothed the younger powdery. Racemes clustered shorter than leafstalk 
3421 Leaves triangular acute repand toothed. Racemes axillary erect nearly leafless, Bractes minute inflexed 
3422 Leaves deltoid sinuate toothed rugose smooth uniform. Racemes terminal 
3423 Leaves hastate sinuate eroded entire behind. Upper oblong entire. Seeds dotted 
3424 Leaves rhomboid ovate eroded entire behind. Upper oblong entire, Seeds smooth 
3425 Leaves ovate-acuminate subcordate angular toothed. Racemes panicled naked terminal and axillary 
3426 Leaves oblong sinuated. Racemes naked multifid. Upper bractes entire lanceolate 
3427 Leaves ovate acute entire, Stem erect. Racemes cymose elongated nearly leafless 
3428 Leaves oblong sinuated. Racemes naked many-cleft. Upper bractes 3-lobed at end 
3429 Leaves pinnatifid, Segm. linear the lower toothed. Clusters of flowers axillary sessile 
3430 Leaves lanceolate remotely toothed. Racemes leafy simple 
3431 Leaves ovate lanceolate sparingly toothed. Spikes simple slender long leafless. Flowers trigynous 
3432 Leaves oblong sinuate-toothed wedge-shaped at base. Clusters of flowers axillary 
3433 Leaves oblong repand glaucous beneath, Spikes clustered simple naked axillary and terminal 
3434 Leaves thick rhomboid-angular somewhat sinuated entire behind. Racemes erect compound leafy 
\ 2. Leaves flat entire. 
3435 Leaves rhomb-ovate, Flowers clustered axillary 
3436 Leaves ovate, Stemi decumbent. Cymes dichotomous leafless axillary 
3437 Leaves ovate obtuse entire. Panicle terminal naked elongated. Stem simple erect 
3488 Cauline leaves lanceolate obtuse. Branch-leaves oblong. Peduncles lateral solitary 1-flowered 
3439 Leaves ovate lanceolate acute entire. Racemes axillary compound naked, Stem divaricating 
3440 Leaves lanceolate fleshy entire. Corymbs dichotomous aristate axillary 
3441 Leaves ovate sinuate, Racemes leafy simple 
3442 Leaves wavy half-round, Flowers axillary sessile 
\ 3. Leaves rounded. 
5443 Stems diffUse, Leaves oblong 1 rounded. Flowers axillary clustered 
3444 Erect shrubby. Leaves semicylindrical obtuse blunt 
3445 Quite smooth, Branches panicled erect. Leaves filiform acutish, Flowers in threes stalked 
3446 Herbaceous nearly erect. Leaves linear fleshy unarmed, Cal. succulent transparent 
3447 Leaves rounded thick smooth terminated by a straight long bristle 
3448 Flowers clustered. Lower leaves ovate, Root fleshy 
3449 Flowers clustered. All the leaves linear-lanceolate. Branches divaricating 
3450 Leaves with very thick ribs. Flowers three together, Root scarcely any 
3451 Racemes erect panicled leafless. Flowers trigynous twin and solitary, Lvs. cordate acute unequal at base 
3452 Flowers in pairs. Stem diffuse. The branches much interwoven. Root scarcely any 
3453 Leaves alternate stalked ovate acute with the veins and nerves purple 
3433 3443 . D Cj» 3453 
3440 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
sugar equal to that of the cane. There are several varieties ; those most esteemed for salads are the small red 
and Castelnaudary, and for extracting sugar, the green-topped. The seed is sown in March or April, on deep 
w'ell comminuted soil. When the plants show two or three proper leaves they are thinned out, so as that each 
plant may occupy or be allowed a square foot of surface. By September or October the roots are fit for use, 
and may either be taken up as wanted, or taken up and buried in sand in the root-cellar. 
B. Cicla, (Cicla is said by De Theis, to be a corruption of sicula, under which name it is spoken of by 
Catullus,) Bette, or Poiree a cardes, Fr. ; Mangold Kraut, Ger. ; and Biettola, Ital., is employed in horticul- 
ture as a spmage plant, and for being used as chard or asparagus ; and in foreign agriculture for the production 
°* J}>8ar. It is much grown in the south of Germany and Switzerland, where the lamina of the leaves is 
used as spinage or put in soups, and the midrib is boiled and eaten with melted butter or gravy as chard. The 
culture IS the same as for the red beet ; but, as the leaves are larger, the space allowed each plant is proportion- 
ally increased. O > i- f f L 
^iq^d"*™* ""^y "^^^ ^ spinage plant or as greens. 
oij. JSosea. Ernest Gottlieb Bose, a German, published at Leipsig, in 1775, a work upon the secretions of 
