<30 POLYANDRIA. 



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 hand- 

 some plants, but many are of a suspected 

 quality. Among them are the Popp\^, the 

 Caper-shrub, the Sangiiinaria canadensis. 

 Curt. Mag. t. 162, remarkable for its 

 orange juice, like our Celandine, Engl. 

 Bof. t. 1.381 ; also the beautiful jrenus 

 Cistus with its copious but short-lived 

 flowers, some of which {Engl. Bof. M321) 

 have irritable stamens ; the splendid aqua- 

 tic tribe of A^?/W2;?^^a, Sec, t.\59, l6'0. 

 But the precious Nutmeg and the Tea 

 are perhaps erroneously placed here by 

 Linnaeus, as well as the Clove ; while on 

 the other hand Cleome more properly be- 

 longs to this part of the system than to the 

 15th Class. 



2. Digynia has principally the Pceonia, 

 ^.1513, variable in number of pistils, and 

 Fofhergilla alnifoUa, an American shrub. 



3. Trigynia. Delphhuinn the Larkspur, and 

 Aconitum the Monk's hood, tv>o variable 



