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Order Cxi – Order IV

Order Cxi

OROBANCHEE.

Leafless parasites on roots, with brown or colorless scaly stems and flowers. 1335 Orobánche W. 1339 Lathræa W.

Order Cxx

GLOBULARINE. 277 Centúnculus W. 42 Schwenckia W. 471 Samólus W. 862 Trientális Pretty alpine plants with blue flowers. The leaves of Globulária A'lypum are very bitter and powerfully purgative, giving at the same time a tone to the stomach and intestines. 260 Globulária W.

Order Cxlvi

CHLORANTHEE.

Obscure Asiatic weeds of no known use, and wholly destitute of interest for gardens. 25 Chloránthus W.

Order Clxv

BUTOMEЖ.

Fine water plants, of which Bútomus, by general consent the most beautiful of British plants, has purple flowers; and Limnocháris, a native of the marshes of Brazil, has yellow ones. 939 Bútomus W. 1175 Limnocháris Rich.

Order Clxvi

ALISMACEÆ.

Handsome water plants, with white flowers, and many ovaria. Some are common in our English ditches, others are found in similar situations in the tropics. 860 Actinocárpus R. Br. 1988 Sagittária W.

Order Clxxi

NAIADES. 2041 Pandánus W.

Floating uninteresting plants, scarcely susceptible of cultivation: they form a close approach to Cellulares. 1938 Zannichéllia W.

Order IV

MARSILEACEÆ.

Floating or erect simple-leaved plants of no known use. The Marsileas, which are to some countries what Lémna is to this, are not known in cultivation. 2214 Isoétes L. 2215 Pilulária L.

NATURAL ARRANGEMENT.

CLASS II. APHYLLÆ