CI. 8.] lysimachi^:. 95 



keep pace with nature. It seems proper nevertheless 

 that these three last Orders should be removed to 

 some of the following Classes. 



Class 8. Dicotyledones. Corolla monope- 

 talous, hypogynous. 



" Calyx of one leaf. Corolla regular or irregular, 

 bearing the Stamens, which are defoiite, and gene- 

 rally alternate with its segments when of equal 

 number. Germen superior, in general simple, with 

 one Style; but in some Apocinei, Ord. 47, the 

 Germen is double, without any Style. Stigma sim- 

 ple or divided. Seeds either naked, or more fre- 

 quently in a Pericarp, either pulpy or capsular, of 

 1 or many cells." 



A great and important Class; whose 15 Orders 

 follow one another in a tolerably natural series. 

 Some are generally furnished with Albumen, others 

 not; but this difference bears no analogy to the other 

 characters of affinity, or of distinction, between the 

 Orders. 



Ord. 34. Lysimachle. " Calyx divided. Corolla 

 mostly regular, five-cleft, bearing as many Stamens 

 opposite to the lobes. Style 1. Stigma rarely cloven. 

 Fruit of 1 cell, with many Seeds, often capsular, with 

 a central unconnected Receptacle. Stem herbaceous. 

 Leaves opposite, or alternate." 



Some have a Stem, as AnagalUs, fig. 169, Lysi- 

 machia, Hottonia, Limosella, &c; others radical 



