POLYANDRIA. 



CLASS XIII. 



STAMINA NUMEROUS AND INDEFINITE. 



This Class has seven Orders. 



Besides the indefinite number of stamina, usually 

 more than twenty,^ which is the character of this 

 Class, they must be inserted in the Receptaculum, as 

 Class XII. requires them to be inserted into the Calyx. 



ORDER I. 

 WHITE WATER LILY. This plant grows in monogy 



rivers and large pools, in dark mud, and blossoms in 

 tlie middle of summer very plentifully : the flower 

 has much tlie air of a tropical production^ but it has 

 no scent, and fades veiy soon after it is gathered. 



The laws of the vegetable world are perhaps as 

 numerous and infinitely various as of the other king- 



^ The filaments of the Paeony and the Tea blossoni are 

 from 250 to 300, and those of the Peeony stand in three circles 

 round the Germen. See Pistilla of the Paeony in the plate 

 shewing the character and appearance of the stigma in diflPerent 

 plants. 



KIA. 



One Pislil- 

 lum. 



