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parcels, both sometimes cohering together 

 at the base. This Class consists of Papi- 

 lionaceous flowers, and is therefore natural, 

 except that some such genera having di- 

 stinct Stamens are excluded, and referred 

 to the tenth Class, in consideration of their 

 number solely; as some ringent flowers 

 with only 2 Stamens are necessarily placed, 

 not in the 14th Class, but the 2d. 



18. Polyadelphia. Stamens united into 

 more than 2 parcels, as in St. JohnVwort. 

 A small Class, in some points related to 

 Icosandria. 



19. Syngenksia. Stamens united by their 

 Anthers into a tube, rarely by their Fila- 

 ments also ; and tli3 flowers are Com- 

 pound. A very natural and extremely 

 numerous Class. Examples of it are the 

 Dandelion, Daisy, Sunflower, &c, 



£0. Gynandria. Stamens united with, or 

 growing out of the Pistil ; either proceed- 

 in^ from the Germen, as in Aristolochia, 

 Engl Bot. t< 398, or from the Style, as in 



