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N° Genera. Growth, species. Native of 
Calyx two-leaved. 
S Chelidonium* * * § h 
9 Mammea t 
10 Papaverf h 
5 Italy, Japan 
1 America 
9 Alps, Oriental 
Species in 
Britain. 
Brit. 4 
Brit. 6 
Calyx four-leaved, or four-cleft. 
11 ActeaJ 
12 Calophyllum 
13 Cambogia 
14 Capparis§ 
15 Caryophyllus|| 
16 Dicera 
17 Grias 
18 Sparmannia 
19 Vallea 
h 3 America, Japan Brit. I 
t 2 India 
t 1 India 
s 15 Italy, Ceylon, See. 
s 1 Moluceo 
1 
t 1 Jamaica 
s 1 Africa 
s 1 
4th. Five-petaled. 
. Capsules . 
20 Bonnetia hi 
21 Cistus^l s & h 49 Cape, Syria, &c. Brit 6 
22 Cleyera 1 Japan 
23 Core-horns- s & h 9 Aleppo, E. & W. Indies 
* In chelidonium (the horned poppy species) after the stamens have performed 
their office, the pistil elongates to upwards of a foot (whence the name horned) filled 
With small seeds. 
f Opium is extracted from the leaf, stalk, arid head of the papaver somniferum, 
of which there are .some varieties; but is not found in the seed. 
t The berries of actea are said to be of a very noxious quality. 
§ The capers that are used as a pickle, are the full grown flower-buds of the 
tapparis spinosa ; and are chiefly brought from Italy. ^ 
ii The spice called cloves , are the flowers of the clove tree (caryophyllus aroma** 
ficus) got before expansion and dried. 
Ludanum or labdanum (cistus ladaniferus) is collected in a particular manner; 
it is gently brushed off the leaves of the shrub in a calm day, with a sort of brush 
or whip composed of many leather straps, to which it adheres, and from which it 
is scraped off, and made into cakes; it is also often taken from the beards of the 
goats, lhat brouze on these shrubs. 
