41 4 PENT AND III A, 



amples of this Order. They all have sessile 

 stigmas. 



Class 5. Pcntandria. Stamens 5. Avery 

 large class. — Orders 6*. 



I. Monogynia. One of the largest and most 

 important Orders of the whole system. 

 The genera are enumerated first artificially, 

 according to the corolla being of one petal 

 or more, or wanting ; inferior or superior ; 

 with naked or covered seeds ; but stand 

 in the system according to their affinities, 

 and compose some natural orders ; as 

 Asperifolice, rough-leaved plants, which 

 have a monopetalous inferior corolla, and 

 four naked seeds, with always more or less 

 of spinous bristles or callous asperities on 

 their foliage ; see Borago, Engl. Bot. t. 36, 

 Lycopsis, t. 938, and Edition, t. 181. 

 Next comes that most elegant tribe of 

 spring plants denominated Precice by Lin- 

 naeus, Primula, t.A — 6, Cyclamen, t. 548, 

 the charming alpine Arefia, and Androsace, 

 Curt. Mag. t. 7 43. These are followed 

 by another Linnaean order, nearly akin, 

 called Rotacea, from the wheel-shaped 

 corolla, Hottonia, Engl. Bot. t. 364, Lysi- 



