The male flowers are in catkins, and the fruit of most of the genera is, when ripe, partially or wholly enclosed in a cup-like involucre, formed by the adhesion of the numerous bracts.
ORDER CLXXV.—HAMAMELIDEÆ.
This order has been already inserted, p. [380].
ORDER CLXXVI.—EMPETREÆ.
Little heath-like plants, with small flowers and showy berries. The Crowberry, Empetrum nigrum, is very common in Scotland on heaths.
ORDER CLXXVII.—CONIFERÆ. (See Chap. XII. P. [205].)