NATURAL ORDERS OF LINILEUS. 
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ORDERS. 
1. Palme. Palms and their relatives ; as Cocoanut, Frog's bit. Fari- 
naceous diet. 
2. Piperite. Pepper and its relatives. In crowded spikes ; as Indian- 
turnip, sweet-flag’. Tonics and stomachics. 
3. Calamarie. Reed-like grasses, with culms without joints ; as cat- 
tail, sedge. Coarse cattle fodder. 
4. Gramina. The proper grasses with jointed culms ; as Wheat, Rye, 
Oats,, Timothy-grass, Indian-corn. Farinaceous diet , and cattle fodder. 
5. Thipetaloidee. Corel* 3-petalled, or calyx 31eaved ; as Water-plan- 
tain, Rush-grass, Arrow-head. Tonics and rough cattle fodder. 
6. Ensate. Liliaceous plants, with sword-form leaves; as Iris, Blue- 
eyed grass, Virginian spiderwort. Antiscorbutics and tonics. 
7. Orchidee. With fleshy roots, stamens on the pistils, pollen glutinous, 
flowers of singular structure with the germ inferior ; as Ladies’ slipper, 
Arethusa. Farinaceous diet and stomachics. 
8. Scitaminee. Liliaceous corols, stems herbaceous, leaves broad, 
germen blunt-angular; as Ginger, Turmeric. Warming stomachics. 
9. Spathacee. Liliacious plants with spathes;t as Daffodil, Onion, 
Snow-drop. Secerruint stimulants. 
10. Coronarie. Liliaceous plants without spathes; as Lily, Tulip, 
Star-grass. The nauseous scented and bitter are antiscorbutic and cathartic, 
the others Emollient. 
11. Sarmentacee. Liliaceous corols with very weak stems ; as Simi- 
lax, Asparagus, Bell-wort. Tonics and Secernant stimulants. 
12. Oleracee or Holeracee. Having flowers destitute of beauty, at 
least of gay colouring; as Beet, Blight, Pig-weed, Dock, Pepperage. If 
nauseous, Cathartic ; others, mild stimulants and nutricntics. 
13. Succplente. Plants with very thick succulent leaves; as Prickly- 
pear, House-leek, Purslane. Antiscorbutic and Emollient. 
14. Grcixales. Corols with five petals, capsules beaked; as Flax, 
Wood-sorrel, Cranes-bill. Tonics and Refrigerants. 
15. Inundatae. Growing under water, ana having flowers destitute of 
beauty ; as Hippuris, Pondweed. Astringents. 
16. Calyciflorae. Plants without corols, with the stamens on the ca- 
lyx ; as Poet's cassia, Seed buckthorn. Astringents and Refrigerants. 
17. Calycanthemae. Calyx on the germ or growing to it, flowers 
beautiful; as Willow-herb, Ludwigia, CEnothera. Astringents. 
18. Bicornes. Anthers with two straight horn3 ; as Whortleberry, spi- 
cy and bitter Wintergrecn, Laurel. Astringents. 
19. Hesperides. Sweet-scented, leaves evergreen ; as Myrtle, Cloves, 
Mock-orange. Astringent and stomachic. 
20. Rotaceae. Corols wheel-form ; as Gentian, St . John’s wort. Tonics. 
21. Preciae. Plants with early spring flowers of an elegant, specious 
appearance ; as Primrose. Astringents. 
22. Caryophylleae. Plants with caryophyllous corols ; as Pink, Cockle r 
Astringent and Secernant stimulants. 
23. Trihilatae. Flowers with 3 stigmas, capsules inflated and winged,, 
and generally three-seeded with distinct hilums ; as Nasturtion, Horse- 
chesnut. Tonics and iN 'utrientics. 
* Or corolla. tOr spathas. 
The artificial system an index to natural methods — Natural orders of 
Linn se us 
