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Clasps 3. Triandria. Stamens 3.— Orders 3. 



1. Monogynia. Valeriana, Engl Bot. t. 698, 

 1591 and 1531, is placed here because 

 most of its species have three stamens. 

 See Class 1. Here also we find the sword- 

 leaved plants, so amply illustrated in Cur- 

 tis's Magazine, Iris, Gladiolus, Liia, &c, 

 1 also Crocus, Engl Bot. t. 343, 344, 491, 

 and numerous grass-like plants, Schamus, 

 Cy penis, Scirpus, see Fl. Grcec. v. l,and 

 EmL Bot. U 950, 1309, 542, 873, &c, 



3. Digynia. This important Order consista 

 of the true Grasses; see p. 127. Theitf 

 habit is more easily perceived than de- 

 fined ; their value, as furnishing herbage 

 for cattle, and grain for man, is suffi- 

 ciently obvious. No poisonous plant is 

 found among them, except the Lolium 

 temuhntum, Engl. Bot. t. ll c 24, said to 

 be intoxicating and pernicious in bread. 

 Their genera are not easily defined. Lin- 

 naeus, Jussieu, and most botanists pay re- 

 gard to the number of florets in each 

 spikelet, but in Arundo this is of no mo- 



