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is more nearly allied to the Lilies than a 

 young botanist would suppose. Near it 

 ^tand several genera which have little af- 

 finity to each other, and of these Capura 

 is a mistake, having been made out of a 

 specimen of Daphne indica, which chanced 

 to have but six stamens. 



2.. Digynia has but few genera. The va- 

 luable Qryza, Rice, of which there now 

 seems to be more than one species, is the 

 most remarkable. It' is a grass with six 

 stamens. 



3. Tfigyriia. See Rumex, Engl. Bot. t. 1533, 

 127 5 &c., some species of which has se- 

 parated flowers ; Tofieldia^ t. 536 ; and 

 Cofchicum, t. 133 and 1432. 



4. Tetragynia. Petiveria alliacea, a plant 

 the number of whose stamens is not very 

 constant, and whose specific name is sup- 

 posed to allude, not only to its garlic scent, 

 but also to the caustic humour of the bo- 

 tanist whom it commemorates. 



5. Ilexagynia. An order in Schreber and 

 Willdenow, contains Wcndlandia populi- 



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