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MONADELPHIA. 



pairs, and the corollas are twisted, and, as I have before 

 remarked, always contrary to each other. Of this Order 

 Dr. Smith makes the Genus Erodium, of which, inhis 

 Flora Britanica, he describes three species figured in 

 the English Botany under the numbers 646, 902, 1 768. 



DRIA. 



Seven Stami- 

 na. 



ORDER 3. 

 No British Plant of this Order. 



PELARGONIUM ACETOSUM, Sorrel Crane's- 

 hill. This plant is a native of the Cape : it blossoms 

 during most of the summer, and is readily propagated 

 by cuttings ; the leaves have somewhat the taste of 

 sorrel, whence it derives its english name. 



ORDER 4. 



No British Plant of this Order. 



AITONIA CAPENSIS Cape Jitonia. Of this 

 Genus there is only one known species -, it has its name 

 Eigiiisumina from Mr. Ailon, *" the author of the Plortus Kewensis. 

 It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and was 



OCTAX- 

 DIUA. 



^ William Alton was born in 1/31, near Hamilton, in the 

 county of Lanark, and being bred to gardening, came in 1754 

 to London to seek employment. At the recommendation of 

 Philip Miller, in 1/39, he became superintendent of the botani- 

 cal garden at Kew, which he greatly improved, and in 1/83 he 



