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Genera. Eriocaulon, the first genus, I yet know little about ; 
but when Mr. Brown returns, he will inform us. I guess it is al- 
lied to Scirpus and Schenus, or perhaps comes still nearer to Typha. 
Restio and Juncus have no affinity at all with the other genera of 
this section : their Stamina are completely hypogynous, and they 
must be placed after their near relations the Grasses. Xyris isa 
very curious genus, and possibly a true Iridéa, though not for the 
Reason which Jussieu gives, its beingtriandrous: but the Filaments 
are inserted in the same part of the Corolla, which twists up when 
it decays as in some of the lridee, so that it merely differs in 
having Germen superum. Before I could reconcile myself to . 
Germen superum and inferum being found in the same Family, 
I had placed it near Tradescantia. Aphyllanthes has given me 
more trouble than any genus in all the Monocotyledones : the Sta- 
mina are inserted in the Corolla, and I believe it will come in at 
the end of Bromelze. Rapatea (Mnasium. of Schreber) must cer- 
tainly join the same order after Tillandsia. Mayaca (Syena of 
Schreber) belongs to a distinct order which I would call, after the 
largest and most known genus in it, Tradescantée; making the 
termination always in ze long, rather than the hated and pompous 
- oidée : thus all confusion, either in writing or speaking of the 
genus which gives a name to the Order, in the plural number, is 
avoided: this Order of Tradescantze will contain Pontederia, 
Hapalanthus, Commelina, Callisia, Tradescantia, and Conda of the 
Hindoos, all which genera have stamina hypog yna. Pollia must 
migrate to the Asparagi 4, as Jussieu supp "The third section 
of J unci constitutes another very scient acit is which we all 
know well, the Tripetaloidee of Linné : in these the Stamina are so 
very evidently placed on a large hypogynous receptacle, that. hi 
am totally at a loss to account for Jussieus making them perigy- | 
nous. Of the genera in the fourth section of Junci, Cabomba 
2¥Oby- VIII. c | ( Nectri TE 
