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MONADELPHIA. 



which he arranged under this Order and the Orders 2, 

 and 3, of this Class, by the titles^ Geranium Erodium 

 and Pelargonium. 



This tribe consists of more than two hundred spe- 

 cies, of which thirteen grow wild in Great Britain. It 

 is remarkable, that the fertilizing pollen of these flow- 

 ers is very apt to mix with others of different species, 

 and so produce new species or varieties ; but these 

 plants rapidly degenerate, and in a few years become 

 extinct. 



ORDER 6. 



E>; DEC AN- 

 URIA. 



Kinetecn Sta- 

 mina. 



No British Plant of this Order. 



BROWNEA RACEMOSA. This is the only Genus 

 in this Order. It is a shrub, or small tree, growing to 

 the height of eighteen feet in woody and hilly places in 

 America : the wood is covered with an ash-coloured 

 bark. The blossom is scarlet. It has its name from 

 Dr. Browne,'' author of the history of Jamaica. The 



return to Paris he published a work with the singular title of 

 Flore de la Place Vendure. He was assassinated in 1801, but 

 his murderers were not discovered. 



h Patrick Browne was an eminent physician, born at Cross- 

 boyne in Ireland, in 1720, When young he was Fent to a 

 relation of his in the island of Antigua, but the climate not agree- 

 ing with his constitution, he returned to Europe in 1737. Hf 



