430 POLYASDRIA. 



artificially distributed according to the 

 number of their petals, but not so arranged 

 in the body of the system. They form a 

 numerous and various assemblage of hand- 

 some plants, but many are of a suspected 

 quality. Among them are the Poppy, the 

 Caper-shrub, the Sangidnaria canadensis, 

 Curt. Mag. t. 162, remarkable for its 

 orange juice, like our Celandine, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 1581 ; also the beautiful genus 

 Cistus with its copious but short-lived 

 flowers, some of which (Engl. Bot. 1. 1321) 

 have irritable stamens ; the splendid aqua- 

 tic tribe of Nymphcea, &c, t. 159? 160. 

 But the precious Nutmeg and the Tea 

 are perhaps erroneously placed here by 

 Linnaeus, as well as the Clove ; while on 

 the other hand Cleome more properly be- 

 longs to this part of the system than to the 

 15th Class. 



2. Digynia has principally the Paojiia, 

 t. 1513, variable in number of pistils, and 

 Fothergitta ahiifolia, an American shrub. 



3. Trigynia. Delphinium the Larkspur, and 

 Aconitam the Monk's hood, two variable 



