Class 11

74. Malvacea

are almost exactly analogous to the Celansrafera, ord. 37.

75. Magnolia form an order certainly as little con nected with the preceding as any two could be in the most artificial system. See the following.

76. .Aeonas. The leading genera of this and the Magnolia compose the Linnaeus Coaduraahs, ord. 52.

77. Menisperma are referred by Linnaeus to his Saraentacea, ord. 11, by their habit more than any just character.

Berberides constitute a curious. order, though liable to some exceptions, of which its author was aware. it entirely escaped the pepetration of Lis notes.

79. Tiliacea

a good order, likewise overlooked by him, or partly confounded with his Calainnifere, tq which it betrays MOO affinity.

80. Cirri. Cistue, which makes this order, is placed by Linname, after *perigees, -at the end of his Re. taw" ord. 2Q. The reader may wonder to find Viola nnsisleted as related teQ or at least to Ansa specie, which Jussieu separates therefeara, by an in.. calrect diameter, and a faulty mane, neliaskienana. OR attributes to these a capsule of one .cells bat one of them at least, anus thangalias, has taros cells, Viola, an anomalous genus, is ranged by Linnaeus at she end of his Causpanacar,•ord.. 29, with, which it seems to have more points uf. agreement.

Butaceer. Pits isa,

very natant!, and now lies New a very extensive order, of which., the genuine idea is confined to Jussieu's. sewed section, and like, wire to the second section of Llamas's Afultisifiyeat, ord. 26. The plants which compose it have alternate leaves, without stipules ; their herbage abounding with arametic acrid oil, lodged in pellucid cells, as Jusaieu's Aiirentia, ,urd. 70. Calyx four or five.

cleft. Petals four or five, alternate therewith. Nita. Wens madly twice as many as, the petals, distinguish. *4 by something elahosate or peculiar in.their strue. tare, by which the genera are often well defined. Ger laten Lobed. Capsule mostly of four or five cells, each lined with a bivalve elastic tunic, containing one or two polished seeds. Dianna and Empleuruss, sub joined as akin to Rutacese, are genuine specimens of the order, though the latter has a capsule deprived of three or four of its lobes or cells, and wants petals. Milianthas has no business here. It ranks with the Lipman Corydaks, ord. 24, much more properly, though a very pussling genus. The students at Paris, in our time, used to amuse themselves with the idea,' that the Professor would not allow this fine plant a place in the garden, because he knew not where to class it in his system.

82. Cargophyllea are exactly analogous, except a few rather doutioul genera at the end, to the similar ly named 22d order of Linnaeus. But between this very natural tribe and the last, Bekaa, there is a hiatus midi defiersibss, as to any natural affinity ; the present order being much more related, as Jussieu candidly indicates, to the Amaranthi, ord. 30, and proving that the presence or absence of a corolla, is no more infallible than any other character, for a ge neral principle of arrangement.