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moved to Dodecandria. It is an p:ast Indian and 

 Cape aquatic genus, bearing above the water white 

 fragrant flowers in a peculiar spike, which is either 

 sohtary or double. 

 4. H^Magynia. Septas, a Cape plant, very nearly akin 

 to Crassula, to which Thunberg refers it. If its char- 

 acterin Linnaus be constant with respect to number, 

 it is very remarkable, having the calyx in 7 deep seg- 

 ments, 7 petals, 7 germens, and consequently 7 cap- 

 sules. 



Class 8. Octandria. Stamens 8. Orders 4. 



i. Monogynia. A very various and rich order, consist- 

 ing of the well-known Tropcsolum or Nasturtium, 

 whose original Latin name, given from the flavour of 

 the plant, like Garden Cresses, is now become its 

 English one in every body's mouth. The elegant 

 and fanciful Linnsean appellation, equivalent to a tro- 

 phy plant, alludes to its use for decorating bowers, 

 and the resemblance of its peltate leaves to shields, as 

 well as of its flowers to golden helmets, pierced 

 through, and through, and stained with blood. See 

 Linn. Hort. Cliff. U5.—Epi labium, Eiigl. Bot. t- 

 838, 795, &c., with its allies, makes a beautiful part 

 of this order ; (130) but above all are conspicuous the 

 fovourite Fuchsia, the chiefly American genus Vac- 



(130) [The natural order Ca/j/carzM<?w<includes many beautiful 

 American plants of this class. Such are Epilobium, Gaiira 

 amothera, Rfiexia, &c. These have their petals and stamens in- 

 serted in the calyx, which commmonly stands upon the i^erm.] 



