364. MONOECIA. 



orates. The Gourd tribe, (142) Cucurbita, Cucumis^ 

 Bryonia^ Engl. Bot. t. 439, might be brought hither 

 from the aboUshed Order Syngenesia^ unless it should 

 • be thought better to consider them as polyadelphous, 

 to which I am most inclined. 



6. Hexandria. Zizania, Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 1. t. \Zi 

 and Phartis^ Browne's Jamaica, t. 38, both grasses, 

 compose this Order, to which Schreber has added 

 Epibaterium aod Pometia of Forster, as well as the 

 splendid Guettarda, Hort. Mai. v. 4. t. 48. The 

 latter varies from 6 to 9 in the parts of the flower j, 

 and constitutes the Order Heptandria in Linnaeus,, 

 according to his usual principle, of placing such ir- 

 regular plants, as much as possible, in small Classes 

 or Orders, that they might be the more easily found. 



T. Polyandria. Stamens more than 7. Ceratophyllum, 

 Engl. Bot. t. 947, 679 ; Myriophyllum, t. 83, 218 ; 

 and the handsome Sagittaria, t. 84, stands here at 

 present, but the accessory parts in their two kinds of 

 flowers are alike. Begonia, Exot. Bot. t. 101, has 

 the number of its petals, though various in several 

 species, always sufficiently different in the barren and 

 fertile flowers to fix it here. — The most indubitable 

 plintsofthis Order are amentaceous, (143) Quercus^ 

 Engl. Bot. t. 1342 ; Fagus, t. 886 ; Corylus, t. 723 ; 



(142) [The Cucurbitaced', or Gourd tribe of Linnaeus, include 

 the Melon, Cucumber, Pumpkin, and others of similar fruit. 

 The Passion Flower is referred to this natural order.] 



(143) [The Ainentacets are a natural order, whose fruit is an 

 anient or catkin, as the Oak, Walnut, Poplar, Willow, Alder, &c.] 



