MONOKCIA. 2X15 



Carpinus, Juglans, Platanus, &c. — Arum, t. 1298, 

 Calla and Ambrosinia, all brought hither from the 

 20th Class, seem to me perfectly intelligible as simple 

 monoecious flowers, the barren one, with many sta-^ 

 mens, being superior or interior with respect to the 

 fertile, like the generality of monoecious as well as all 

 compound flowers, and not inferior^ or, as in every 

 simple one, exterior, 



%. Monodelphia. The Fir, Pinus, ( 144) so magnificently 

 illustrated by Mr. Lambert, is very distinct in its two 

 kinds of flowers. Each barren one consists of n 

 naked tuft of monadelphous stamens, accompanied 

 only by a few bracteas at the base. The fertile ones 

 arc catkins, with similar bracteas, each scale bearing 

 on its upper side a pair of winged seeds, and on its 

 under a leaf-like style and acute stigmas ; asJussicu 

 first, rightly I believe, suggested, though some bot- 

 anists have understood these parts otherwise. Aca- 

 . lypha, Croton, Jatropha, Ricinus and several others 

 of the natural order of Euphorbia, acrid milky plants, 

 form a conspicuous and legitimate part of Monoecia 

 Monadelphia. Omphalea is justly associated with them 

 by Schreber, though placed by Linnaeus in the Order 

 Triajidria, and this alteration is the more fortunate, 

 as one of its species is diandrous. Sterculia is best 

 removed to the llih Class, ntxt to Kleinhovia, 



9. Polydelphia. If the system should be preserved in 

 its present state, without regard to agreement or dif- 



(144) [The Pine, Cypress, Larch, and others, whose fruit is a 

 cone or strobilus^ from their natural order Coniferx.~\^ 



