412 TRIANDRIA. 



ment. Magnificent and valuable works 

 on this family have been published in Ger- 

 many by the celebrated Schreber and by 

 Dr. Host. The Fl. GrcEca also is rich in 

 this department, to which the late Dr. Sib- 

 thorp paid great attention. Much is to be 

 expected from scientific agriculturists; but 

 Nature so absolutely, in general, accom- 

 modates each grass to its own soil and sta- 

 tion, that nothing is more difficult than to 

 overcome their habits, insomuch that few 

 grasses can be generally cultivated at plea- 

 sure. 



3. Trigynia is chiefly composed of little 

 pink-like plants, or Caryopliyllece, as Ho~ 

 losteum, EngL Bot. t. 27. 



Tilltea ??mscos.a, t. 11 6, has the number 

 proper to this order, but the rest of the 

 genus bears every part of the fructification 

 in fours. This in Linnaean language is ex- 

 pressed by saying the flower of Tilkca is 

 quadrifidus*, four-cleft, and T. muscosa 

 excludes, or lays aside, one fourth of the 

 fructification. 



* See Linn. Sp. PL 186, and Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 31. 



