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genera are, Collinfonia, horfe-weed ; pianthera; Gratiola, 
hedge-hylfop ; Juflicia, beetle-nut ; Scoparia ; Verbena, 
vervain ; Veronica, fpeedwell; Acanthus, bear’s-breech ; 
Antirrhinum, calves-fnout, toad’s-flax, or fnap-dragon ; 
Avicennia-; Barleria ; Bartfia ; Befleria ; Bignonia, trum¬ 
pet-flower; Bontia, Barbadoes wild olive; Buchnera ; 
Capraria, (weet-weed; Chelone, humming-bird tree; Ci- 
tharexylon, fiddle-wood ; Clerodendrum ; Colunmea; Cor- 
nutia; Craniolaria; Cymbaria; Dodartia; Duranta; Eri- 
nus; Euphrafia, eye-bright; Gerardia ; Gelneria ; Gme- 
lina ; Halleria, African fly, or honeyfuckle; Lantana, 
American viburnum ; Lathrsea ; Manulea ; Martynia ; 
Melampyrum, cow-wheat; Mitmilus, monkey-flower; 
Obolaria ; Orobanche, broom-rape ; Ovieda ; Pedicularis, 
rattle-coxcomb, or loufe-wort; Petrea ; Phryma; Rhi- 
nanfhus, elephant’s-head; R-uellia; Schwalbea ; Scrophu- 
Jaria, fig-wort; Stemodia; Torenia ; Tozzia ; Vandellia ; 
Vitex, agnus callus, or chafle-tree ; Volkameria. 
41. Asferifolize, rough-leaved plants, viz. Anchufa, 
buglofs; Afperugo, fmall wild buglofs, or great goofe- 
grafs ; Borrago, borrage ; Cynogloflum, hound’s-tongue, 
Venus’s navel-wort, or lawn; Echium, viper’s buglofs; 
Heliotropium, turnfole; Lithofpermum, gromwell, or 
gray mill; Lycoplis ; Myofotis, motife-ear fcorpion-grafs; 
Onofma ; Pulmonaria, lung-wort, or fage of Jerufalem ; 
Symphytum, comfrey ; Cerinthe, honey-wort ; Nolana ; 
Cordia, febeften; Varronia; Tournefortia, bafe withe; 
Ehretia, bafe cherry-tree ; and Patagonula. The greater 
part of thefe are herbaceous and perennial. 
42. Verticillat^s, confift of herbaceous vegetables, 
having four naked feeds, and the flowers placed in whirls 
round the Italic. The genera are, Ajtiga, bugle; Ame- 
thyftea, amethyft ; Ballotta, black horehound ; Betonica, 
betony ; Cleonia ; Clenopodium, field bafil; Cunila, Vir¬ 
ginian penny-royal ; Dracocephalum, dragon’s-head ; Ga- 
leopfis, hedge-nettle; Glechoma, ground-ivy; Horminum, 
Pyrentean clary; Hytropus, liyfTop; Lamium, dead nettle; 
Lavandula, lavender; Leonurus,Jion’s-tail; Lvcopus, wa¬ 
ter horehound; Marrubium, horehound ; MeliiTa, balm ; 
Melittis, bafe balm ; Mentha, mint; Moluccella, Molucca 
balm ; Monarda, Ofwego tea; Nepeta, cat-mint, or nep ; 
Ocymum, bafil; Origanum, marjorapi; Orvala; Phlomis, 
fage-tree, or Jerufalem fage; Prafium, fiirubby hedge- 
nettle ; Prunella, felf-heal; Rofmatinus, roferhary ; Salvia, 
(age; Satureia, favory; Scutellaria, fcull-cap; Sideritis, 
iron-wort; Stachys, bafe horeliound ; Teucriitm, german¬ 
der ; Thymbra, mountain hyflbp ; Thymus, thyme; Tri- 
choflema; and Ziziphora, Syrian field r ba!il. The plants 
of this order are fragrant, warm, and penetrating, and 
their chief virtue relides in the leaves. 
43. Dumosje, from dumus, a bufh, confifl of a number 
of fhrubby plants, which are thick fet with irregular 
brandies, and bulky. The plants of this order are all of 
the (hrub and tree kind, rifing from fix to forty feet high. 
The.genera are, Achras, fapota; Calline, caffioberry-bufh, 
and South-Sea or Paraguay tea ; Ceanothus, New-Jerfey 
tea; Celallrus, ftaff-tree; Chryfqphyllum, (tar-apple, and 
damfon-tree; Fagara ; Ilex, holly ; Phylica, bafe alater- 
nus ; Prinos, winter-berry; Rhamnus, buckthorn, or ju¬ 
jube-tree ; Rhits, fumach, or poifon-tree ; Schinus, Indian 
maftic; Sideroxylon, iron-wood; Callicarpa, Johnfonia; 
Euonymus, fpindle-tree ; Sambucus, elder ; Tomex ; Vi¬ 
burnum, pliant mealy-tree, or wayfaring-tree, laurultinus, 
and guelder-rofe. The berries, bark, and flowers, of many 
of thefe plants, are purgative. 
44. Sepiarize, from ftpcs, a hedge, confifl of a beau¬ 
tiful collection of woody plants, fome of which, from their 
(ize, elegance, and other circumftances, are very proper to 
adorn fhrubberies. The genera are, Chionanthus, fnowdrop- 
tree, or fringe-tree ; Fraxinus, afh-tree ; Jafminum, jeffa- 
mine; Liguftrum, privet; Nydanthes, Arabian jeflamine; 
Olea, olive; Phillyrea, mock privet; Syringa, lilac. This 
order furniflies woody plants both of the (hrub and tree 
kind, mod of which do not drop their leaves till nearly the 
twne when the new leaves begin to appear. 
ANY. 
45- Umbellate, from umbella, an umbel, confifl of 
plants whofe flowers grow in umbels, with five petals that 
are often unequal, and two naked feeds that are joined at 
the top, and feparated below. Thefe plants are herbaceous, 
and chiefly perennial. The genera are, ^Egopodium, herb 
gerard, gout-wort, or wild angelica ; Tsthuf'a, leffer hem¬ 
lock, or fool’s parfley ; Ammi, hi(hop’s-weed ; Anethum, 
dill, or fennel; Angelica; Apium, parfley ; Ardfopus; Ar- 
tedia ; Aflrantia, black mafler-wort; Atliamanta, fpignel; 
Bubon, Macedonian parfley ; Btinium, pig-nut, or earth- 
nut ; Bupleurum, bare’s-ear; Cachrys ; Carum, cari, or 
caraway; Caucalis, bafe parfley; Clnerophyllum, cher¬ 
vil; Cicuta, water-hemlock; Conium, hemlock; Cort- 
andrum, coriander; Crithnmm, famphire ; Cuminum, 
cumin ; Daucus, carrot ; Echinophora, prickly parfnip ; 
Eryngium, eringo ; Ferula, fennel-giant; Halfelquiflia ; 
Heracleum, cow-parfnip; Hydrocotyle, water navel- 
wort ; Imperatoria, mafter-v ort; Laferpitium, lafer- 
wort ; Ligullicum, lovage ; Oenanthe, water-dropwort ; 
Paflinaca, parfnip ; Peucedanum, hog’s fennel, or fill, 
phur-wort; Phellandrium ; Pimpinella, burnet-faxifrage ; 
Sanicula, fanicle ; Scandix, fhepherd’s-needle, or Venus’s 
comb ; Selinum, milk-parfley ; Sefeli, hart-wort of Mar- 
feilles; Sium, water-parfnip; Sifon, bafe (lone-parfley; 
Smyrnium, alexanders ; Thaplia, deadly carrot, or fcorch- 
ing-fennel; Tordylium, hart-wort of Crete. 
46. Hedekace^, from hedera, ivy ; confift of ivy and 
a few other genera that feem nearly allied to it. This or¬ 
der furnifhes Both herbaceous and fhrubby plants ; and its 
genera are, Aralia, berry-bearing angelica ; Ciffus, wild 
grape; Hedera, ivy; Panax, ginfeng; Vitis, vine ; Zan- 
thoxylum, tooth-ach-tree. 
47. Stellate, from Jlella, a flar; confifl of plants 
with two naked feeds, and leaves difpoled round the flem 
in form of a flar. The genera are, Anthofpermum, am¬ 
ber-tree; Afperula, woodroof; Cruciauella, petty mad¬ 
der; Diodia ; Galium, lady’s bedftraw, or cheefe-rennet; 
hedyotis ; Knoxia ; Lippia ; Phyllis, bafe hare’s-ear; Ri- 
chardia ; Rubia, madder ; Sherardia, little field-madder; 
Spermaccce, button-weed ; Valantia, crofs-wort; Houfto- 
nia; Oldenlandia; Ophiorrhiza, ferpent’s-tongue; Spige- 
Jia, worm-grafs ; Coffea, coffee-tree ; Cornus, dog wood, 
or cornelian cherry ; Ixora, American; jeflamine; Pavetta ; 
and Pfychotria, ipecacuanha. This order contains herbs, 
fhrubs, and trees. 
48. Agg regatte, from aggregare, to affemble or col- 
left, comprehend thofe plants which have aggregate flow¬ 
ers, confiding of a number of florets or fmall flowers, each 
of which have a proper, and common calyx. The genera 
are, Statica, thrift, or fea-pink ; Hartogia ; Brunia; Pro¬ 
tea, filver-tree ; Globularia, blue daily ; Leucadendron ; 
Hebenftretia ; Selago ; Cephalanihus, button-wood ; Dip- 
facus, teazel; Scabiofa, fcabiou.s; Knautia; Allionia; Va¬ 
leriana, valerian Morina ; Boerhavia ; Circaea ; Lonicera, 
honeyfuckle; Chiococca, fnovv-berry ; Triofleum, fever- 
root, or tinker’s-weed ; Mitchella; Linmea; Morin'da; 
Conocarpus, button-tree ; Loranthus ; Vileum, mifletoe. 
49. Combositte, confift of plants with compound 
flowers. In this order Linnaeus lias conflrufled his firfl 
or primary divifions from the different'fexes of the florets, 
which he terms polygamy ; the fubaltern divifioris are con- 
ftrufled from the figure of the petals, the difpofition of the 
flow ers, the pappus or crown of the feed, the common re¬ 
ceptacle, and other circiimftances which charaflerize the 
fubaltern divifions in other authors. The genera are, Gun- 
delia; Echinops, globe-thiftle; Sphaeranthus, globe-flow¬ 
er; Arflium, burdock; Serratula, faw-wort, orway-thiftle; 
Carduus, thiftle; Onopordon, woolly, or cotton thiftle; 
Cynara, artichoke; Carlina, carline-thiftle ; Gorteria; A- 
traclylis, diflaff-thiftle ; Carthamus, bafe faffron ; Centau- 
rea, centaury, blue-bottle, or knapweed ; Elephantopus, 
elephant’s foot; Scolymus, golden thiftle ; Cichorium, fuc- 
cory, or endive ; Catananche, Candiit lion’s foot; Lapfana, 
nipple-wort; Hypochceris, gofmoro ; Seriola ; Hyoferis, 
yellow-eye; Andryala, downy fow-thiftle; Crepis, bafe 
hawk weed; 
