ANALYTICAL DRAWINGS OF THE NETTLE, SANDALWOOD, AND 
KNOT-GRASS ORDERS, AND OF THE GOOSEFOOT FAMILY— 
continued. 
The Urticace a are mostly herbaceous, with watery juice ; polysymmetric 
unisexual flowers ; explosive anthers and single erect ovules. The Small Nettle 
( Urtica urens Linne), represented by the third row of figures, is moncecious, Fig. i 
showing an inflorescence ; Fig. 2, a staminate flower magnified ; Fig. 3, a 
female flower ; Fig. 4, a fruit ; and Fig. 5, the same seen in section. The 
Pellitory ( Parietaria ramiflora Moench) is polygamous, Fig. 1 in the fourth line 
representing a staminate flower ; Fig. 2, the same enlarged ; Fig. 3, a female 
flower ; Fig. 4, one of the explosive stamens ; Fig. 5, the gynaeceum magnified ; 
Fig. 6, young male and female (protogynous) flowers; Fig. 7, a similar group in 
the later or male stage ; Fig. 8, a fruit, and Fig. 9, the same in section. 
The fifth row of figures represents the very anomalous Mistletoe ( Viscum album 
Linne), our only British member of the Family Loranthace <e. Fig. 1 is a male 
inflorescence, the species being dioecious ; Fig. 2, the same enlarged ; Fig. 3, 
a female flower enlarged ; Fig. 4, a seed with two embryos ; Fig. 5, a berry, 
and Fig. 6, the same in section. 
The Bastard Toad-flax ( Thesium humifusum De Candolle), our only representative 
of the Santalacete, is represented by the sixth line of figures. Fig. 1 is an 
inflorescence ; Fig. 2, one of the perfect flowers ; Fig. 3, the same enlarged ; 
Fig. 4, the corolla, stamens, and gynaeceum dissected and enlarged ; Fig. 5, 
one of the incurved petals and a stamen ; Fig. 6, a fruit ; and Fig. 7, the 
same in longitudinal section. 
The seventh and eighth lines of figures represent Rumex and Polygonum , the 
two chief genera in the Order Polygonales, the former mainly taken from the dioecious 
Sheep’s Sorrel ( Rumex Acetosella Linne). The first figure in the seventh line is the 
side view of a flower ; Fig. 2, the same seen from above ; Fig. 3, a side view 
of a staminate flower slightly enlarged ; Fig. 4, a similar view of a female flower ; 
Fig. 5, an enlarged view of one of the perfect flowers of the Common Dock 
{Rumex crispus Linne) ; Fig. 6 is a winged fruit magnified ; Fig. 7, the same 
without the wings ; and Fig. 8, in section. 
In line eight, Fig. 1 is a flower of Polygonum amphibium Linne ; Fig. 2 is the 
same so opened as to show the stamens on the corolla ; Fig. 3 is the gynaeceum 
with two styles ; Fig. 4, a stamen ; Fig. 5, a young fruit with the perianth ; 
Fig. 6, a section of a fruit, and Fig. 7, a spray of young fruits. 
The last line of figures represents the remarkable halophyte Salicornia herbacea 
Linne, Fig. 1 being a shoot showing the flowers ; Fig. 2, part of the same 
enlarged, and Fig. 3, a flower consisting of a solitary stamen and the gynaeceum. 
