. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. and effectuallythan Cantharides. Armeria vulgaris is regarded in Germany as an active two diachms to an ounce of the flowers freshly gathered and quickly dried shouldbe gently boiled and the patient allowed to drink of the decoction ad libitum. Somearomatic, as Anise or Cinnamon, is added to the decoction. The remedy appears to causethe excretion of urine in a direct manner.—Med. Gaz. xx. 144. As garden plants,nearly the whole Order is much prized for beauty, part
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. and effectuallythan Cantharides. Armeria vulgaris is regarded in Germany as an active two diachms to an ounce of the flowers freshly gathered and quickly dried shouldbe gently boiled and the patient allowed to drink of the decoction ad libitum. Somearomatic, as Anise or Cinnamon, is added to the decoction. The remedy appears to causethe excretion of urine in a direct manner.—Med. Gaz. xx. 144. As garden plants,nearly the whole Order is much prized for beauty, particularly the Statices, many ofwhich are among the most lovely herbaceous plants we know. GENERA. —Petalsandl Limoniiim, TonrnQi. ,11. —Pe-| fThela, l,omstyles distinct. Taxanthema, Neck. \ ,.rv.«^o n%-7M I Armeriastrum, Jaub. ^S^M- Ugialitis, Eurychiton, Nimmo. | talsandstvlesadherent. Ceratostigma, Bunge. Plumbago, T«„n„/. |;;£rdii«»*«. Numbers. Gen. 8. Sp. —Primulaceae.——Plantaginacea?. T T 642 PLANTAGINACEiE. [Perigynous Fig. CCCCXXIX. Order CCXLVI. PLANTAGINACEiE.—Ribworts. Plantagines, Juss. Gen. 89. (1789).—Plantagineae, R. Brown Prodr. 423. (1810); Endl. Gen. cxvi.;Meistier, p. 315; Leydolt, die Plantagineen; Bamioud Recherches sur le Developpement, ^c, desPlantaginees. Diagnosis.—Cortusal Exogens, with stamens alternate ivith the petals^ 1 styUy and a straight infioresceiKe. Hei-baceous plants, usually stemless, occasionally with a stem. Leaves fonningrosettes, or in the caulescent species both alternate and opposite ; flat and ribbed ortaper and fleshy. Flowers in spikes, rarely sohtary, usually p, seldom by abortion ^ ? . Calyx imbricated in aestivation, 4-parted, persis-tent. Corolla membranous, monopetalous, hypo-gynous, persistent, \\ith a 4-parted limb. Stamens4, inserted into the corolla, alternately with itssegments ; filaments filiform, flaccid, doubled in-wards in a
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