ORDER MONOGYNIA. 
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lying dead under these trees while in flower. Probably the 
flower contains something pernicious to them.” This is net 
the only example of fatal consequences resulting from trusting 
too much to external appearances ! This tree is not improperly 
called Judas’ tree, a name by which it is often known. 
The three genera of plants which we have now noticed, un- 
der the first order of this class, all bear fruit in that kind ol pod 
called a legume ; this is the case, in general, with the papilion- 
aceous flowers. 
In shady woods, where the soil is loose and rich, we find in 
June and July, the winter-green (C.aultheria,) a perennial plant 
which grows to the height of eight or ten inches; the pleasant 
taste of the leaves of this plant, and the still finer flavor of its 
fruit, are well known ; the drooping blossom is also very deli- 
cate and beautiful, consisting of a bell-form corolla, (not unlike 
the lily of the valley,) the colour of which is white, tinged with 
pink. Though you may have often enjoyed eating the fruit and 
leaves of the winter-green, you will experience a delight which 
this mere pleasure of sense could not have afforded, when in 
your botanical rambles in the woods, you chance to meet with 
this plant in blossom, with its little flowers just peeping out from 
a bed of dry leaves : you may then enjoy the pleasure of a 
beautiful object of sight, with the higher enjoyment of intellect- 
ual gratification, by tracing in it, not only intrinsic beauty, but 
those characters which give it a definite place in scientific ar- 
rangement. 
In the same natural family with the winter-green arc two 
genera, Pyrola and Chimaphila, which by some botanists have 
been included under one ; but they appear to be sufficiently dis- 
tinct from each other to constitute a separate genus. These 
plants belong to the natural order Ilicornes, or two horns ; allu- 
ding to the two protuberances like straight horns, which appear 
on their anthers. The heath in the 8th class is of the same 
natural family, as also the whortleberry (Vaccinium,) which con- 
tains a great many species ; the Europeans place this genus in the 
class Octandria, but an American botanist'* says, “ that of twen- 
ty five species in our country, not one is found with eight sta- 
mens, and in Europe only three species are known with that 
number.” He very properly inquires, whether all our American 
species ought to be misplaced on account of those few European 
species. The cranberry, (Oxycoccus,) which was formerly 
* Eaton. 
Winter Green and other plants belong to the natural family Bicornes — 
Genus Vaccinium. 
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