332 POLYANDKIA. 



Ci^ASS 13, Polyandria, Stamens numerous, inserted 

 into the Receptacle. Orders 7. 



1. Monogynia. The genera of this order are 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 handsome 

 plants, but many are of a suspected quality. Among 

 them are the Poppy, the Caper-shrub, the Sanguina- 

 ria canadensis. Curt. Mag. t. 162, remarkable for its 

 orange juice, like our Celandine, Engl. Bot. t. 1581 ; 

 (135) also the beautiful genus Cistus with its copious 

 but short-lived flowers, some of w hich [Engl. Bot. t. 

 1321) have irritable stamens ; the splendid aquatic 

 XnhG o{ Nymphaa, h.c., t. 159, 160. But the pre> 

 cious Nutmeg and the Tea are perhaps erroneously 

 placed here by Linnse'is, as well as the Clove ; while 

 on the gather hand Cleome more properly belongs to 

 this part of the system than to the 15th Class. 



% D'lgynia has principally the Ptsonia, t. ISl'^, variable 

 in number of pistils, and Fothergilla alnifolia^ an 

 American shrub. 



3. Trigynia. Ddphmnim the Larkspur, and Aconitum 

 the Monk's hood, two variable and uncertain genera 

 as to number of pistils, 



(135) [The Poppy, Celandine, Blood Root, £cc. which have a 

 capsule or silique, and a caducous calyx belong- to the natural 

 order Rhceadex. Some other genera chiefly of the order Polygy- 

 nia, which have many pods, or many naked seeds, to one flower, 

 are placed in the natural order Multisitiquo.'. Such are Caltha., 

 Aquilegia, Anemone^ Iia7iunctilus, Sec] 



