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genus as to stamens and styles, ^vllich 

 therefore atlbrd good murks to discriiniiiale 

 the spc:cies. 



Class 11. Dudccandria. Stamens 12 to 19« 

 Orders 0". 



1. Monogijjua. A rather numerous and verj 

 various order, with scarcely any natural a!-. 

 finity between the genera. Some of them 

 have twelve, others fifteen or more stamens, 

 which should be mentioned in their cha- 

 racters. Asarufji, Engl. Bot. t. 1083, and 

 the handsome Lytlwum Salicaria, t. 1061, 

 also the American Snow-drop-trec, Halesia, 

 not rare in our gardens, may serve as ex- 

 amples of this order. StercuUa is very 

 properly removed hither from Gynandria 

 by Schreber and Willdenow, as its sta- 

 mens are not inserted above the germen. 



2. Digi/iiia consists of HeJiocarpus, a very 

 rare American tree with a singularly fringed 

 or radiated fruit ; and Agrimonia, Engl, 

 Bot. t. 1335. The latter might as well 

 have been placed in the next class, with 

 "vvhich it agrees in qatural order. 



