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and uncertain genera as to number of 

 pistils. 



4. Tetragynia. Tefracera ought, by its 

 name, to have constantly four pistils, but 

 the rest of this order are very doubtful. 

 Caryocar* whose large rugged woody nuts 

 contain the most exquisite kernel ever 

 brought to our tables, and which is the 

 'same plant with Gartner's and Schreber's 



Rhizobolus, as the excellent Willdenow 

 rightly judged, is not certain in number ; 

 and still less the Cimicifuga; whilst 

 Wahlbomia is probably a Tetracera : see 

 Willdenow. 



5. Pentagynia contains chiefly Aquilcgia 

 the Columbine, and Nigella — both strictly 

 allied to genera in the third order. Reau- 

 muria indeed is here well placed. Some 

 Nigel Ice have ten styles. 



6. Hexagynia consists of Stratiotes, Engl. 

 Hot. t. 379 ; and Brasenia, a new genus of 

 Schreber's with which I am not acquainted. 



I would recommend an union of the 

 last five orders, for the same reason that 



