CLASSIFICATION. 159 
compound racemus; as in Hedera, 5 ee Vitis, 
Cissus, Aralia, Zanthoxylon. . 
47, Stellate; these have a quadrifid corolla, four 
stamina, and two naked seeds. he leaves are 
commonly verticillated; as in Galium, Asperula, 
Valantia, &c. | 
48. <Aggrevatae; these appear like compound 
flowers, but have no united antherz ; as Scabiosa, 
Cephalanthus, &c. : 
49. Composite ; this order contains all the com- 
pound flowers ; -wid. § 76. 
50. Amentacee ; this contains:those plants whose 
fruit is a catkin; wid. § 64. 
51. Conifere ; this contains those that bear a stro- 
bilus, § 113; as Pinus, Juniperus, &c. 
52. Coadunate; those which bear several berries - 
or similar fruit united in one, as in Annona, Uvaria, 
Magnolia, &c. 
53. Scabridz, that bear rough leaves and flowers of 
no beauty, as Ficus, Urtica, Parietaria, Cannabis, &c. 
54. Miscellaneae; to this order belong all those 
plants which cannot be referred to one or other of 
the aforegoing. 
55. Filices,, § 122, Nov 4. 
56. Musci, § 122, No. 3. 
57. Algae, § 122, No. 2. 
58. Fungi, § 122, No. 1. 
Many of these natural families are very artificial, 
and some of them quite improper ; but most of them 
have in their external appearance a great resem- 
blance, which we easily comprehend, but which it 
is not easy to describe. Some of these natural or- 
4 deys 
