. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ed that the giounds of separatingthe two are not strong. The simple carpel of the Planesrefers it Iather to the Urtical than the Amental AlUance :they may be regarded as the connecting link betweenArtocarpads and Liquidambars, agreemg most with thefoiTuer on account of the simplicity of their fruit. Noble timber-trees, natives of Barbary, the Levant,and North America, and extending even mto Cashmere. They are cliiefly cultivated for the sake of theu noble appearance ;their broa
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. ed that the giounds of separatingthe two are not strong. The simple carpel of the Planesrefers it Iather to the Urtical than the Amental AlUance :they may be regarded as the connecting link betweenArtocarpads and Liquidambars, agreemg most with thefoiTuer on account of the simplicity of their fruit. Noble timber-trees, natives of Barbary, the Levant,and North America, and extending even mto Cashmere. They are cliiefly cultivated for the sake of theu noble appearance ;their broad, shady, palmated leaves being equalled in this country bythose of no hardy trees except the Sycamore and its fellow timber is firm and close grained, but brittle, peiishable, and only fitfor indoor work. That of P. orientalis is said, howevei-, to be m p. qlxxxvtrequest in the East for cabinet work, and even to have been used in ship-building. The timber of P. occidentalis is redder, but warps, and willnot bear exposure to weather. No use is made of any other part of these plants. GENUSPlatanus, Numbers. Gen. 1. Sp. 6 ? Position.—Artocarpacese.—Platanace^.AltingiaceeB. Fig. CLXXXVI.—Platanus orientalis. 1. The S inflorescence; 2. the ?; 3. an anther; 4. a per-pendicular section of an ovary ; 5. a perpendicular section of a ripe fruit. EUPHORBIACE^. Alliance XX. EUPHORBIALES.—The Euphorbial Alliance. Diagnosis.—Diclinous Exogeiis, with scattered monodicJilamydeous flowers, superiorconsolidated carpels, axile placentas, and a large embryo surrounded by abundantalbumen. The main difference between the Euphorbial and Urtical AUiances consists in thecompound consohdated pistil of the former and the simple one of the latter. In otherrespects they are much the same. Euphorbials may be regarded then as a higher formof Urticals, and accordingly we find their lateral affinities also pointing to groups witha more complicated structure ; as for ex
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