DIADELPHIA. 

 CLASS XVII. 



THE FILAMENTS OF THE STAMINA UNITED, 



MAKING TWO SETS, BOTH SOMETIMES 



COHERING AT THE BASE. 



This Class has four Orders. 

 ORDER 1. 

 No British Plant of this Order. 

 TREE-LEAVED MONNIERIA. This plant is pextan. 



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named after M. IVIonnier, a physician of Pans. Jt is 



the only Genus in this Order, a very scarce annual Fivesumina. 

 plant, A^ith white flowers, a native of South America, 

 and of which there is no good figure that can be ac- 

 curately depended upon : tlile one annexed is copied 

 from the French Encyclopid Methodique, which is 

 the best representation there is of it, and that was de- 

 lineated from a dried specimen. 



ORDER 2. 



YELLOW FUMITORY. This plant is a native 

 of Barbar\', and blossoms in May. Its leaves con- 



-' Six Stiiinina. 



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