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A SYNOPSIS OF THE CHARACTERS OF THE ORDERS AND 
GENERA OF PLANTS DESCRIBED IN THIS WORK. 
crass 1. DICOTYLEDONS. 
SuBcLass 1. ANGIOSPERMS. 
§1. THALAMIFLORA. 
atyx and corolla usually present; petals free; stamens immediately beneath 
i rhe pistil. 
ORDER TI, MAGNOLIACE. 
Trees or shrubs, with exstipulate alternate leaves, Flowers perfect : sepals, 
two to six; petals in one or several series, hypogynous; stamens indefinite, 
7 hypogynous, often with dilated filaments; carpels few; seeds few, with copious 
endosperm ; embryo minute. 
The type of this order is the fine-genus Magnolia. The order includes the 
tulip-tree of North America (Liriodendron tulipifera) and the Winter’s bark of 
antarctic America (Drimys Winteri), 
' Genus I. Drimys, Forster. 
r Sepals, two to four, more or less coherent; petals, about six, in two series ;_ 
filaments clavate; anthers diverging. Fruit, a berry. 
Orver 2. VIOLARIE. 
_ Herbs, shrubs, or trees, with alternate stipulate leaves. Flowers perfect or 
dicecious, irregular, or rarely regular: sepals five, petals five, both imbricate, 
I ypogynous ; stamens, five, hypogynous; anther-cells adnate by the back to 
‘the inner surface of the connective, with the connective prolonged above the 
apex, or with an appendage developed at the back; ovary free, one-celled, with 
two or, rarely, three parictal placentas. Fruit, a capsule or an indehiscent 
berry; seeds with fleshy endosperm. 
The violet is the type of this order. 
Genus 1. Metricytrus, Forster. 
Shrubs or trees, with toothed leaves; stipules minute. Flowers dicecious or 
olygamous, very small, regular, fasbicted: sepals, five; petals, five; stamens, 
foe: free, sessile, connective nedalty apaanded: membranous, with a seule at the 
back; stigma discoid. Fruit, a berry, with several black angled seeds, 
Orver 3. PITTOSPORE/E. 
Shrubs or trees, with alternate or verticillate leaves, exstipulate. Flowers 
tegular: sepals, five; petals, five, with long erect claws and spreading limbs, 
imbricate ; stamens, as alternating with fhe petals, hypogynous; ovary free, 
two-celled or incompletely two- to five-celled ; stigma obtuse; ovules numerous. 
Fruit, a woody capsule with two to five valves or an ingebieeent berry. 
