parcels, both sometimes cohering together 

 at the base. This Class consists of Papi- 

 lionaceous flowers, and is therefore natural, 

 except that some such genera having (di- 

 stinct Stamens are excluded, and referred 

 to the tenth Class, ir^ consideration of their 

 number solely ; as some ringent flowers 

 ■with only 2 Stamens are necessarily placed, 

 not in the X4th Glass, but the 2d. 



18. Poly A DEL PHI A. Stamens united into 

 more than ^ parcels, as in St. John'*s-\yort. 

 A small Class, in some points related to 

 Icosandria. 



49. Syngenesia. Stamens united by their 

 Anthers into a tube, rarely by their Fila- 

 ments also ; and the flowers arp Com- 

 pound. A very natural and extremely 

 numerous Class. Examples of it are the 

 Dandelion, Dajsy, Sunflo\yer, &c. 



20. Gynandria. Stamens united with, or 

 growing out of the Pistil ; either proceed- 

 ing from the Germen, as in Aristolochia, 

 Pngl Bot. t. 398, or from the Style, as in 



