4H VENTANDRIA, 



amples of this Order. They all have sessile 



stigmas. 



Class 5. Tentandria. Stamens 5. A ver}^ 

 large class. — Orders 6. 



2. Monogijnia, One of the largest and most 

 important Orders of the whole system. 

 The genera are enumerated first artificiallj, 

 according to the corolla being of one petal 

 or more, or wanting ; inferior or superior ; 

 with naked or covered seeds ; but stand 

 in the system according to their affinities, 

 and compose some natural orders ; as 

 Ai>perifoU(E, rough-leaved plants, which 

 have a monopetalous inferior corolla, and 

 four naked seeds, with always more or less 

 of spinous bristles or callous asperities on 

 their foliage; see Borago^ Engl. Bot, t. 3G, 

 Lycopsis, t, 938, and Echiu?n, t. 181. 

 Next comes that most elegant tribe of 

 spring plants denominated Pre cue by Lin- 

 naeus, Frimula, t, 4 — 6, Cydanien, t. 548, 

 the charming alpine J ret^/<7, and Androsace, 

 Curt, Mag. t. 743. These are followed 

 by another Linnaean order, neaity akin, 

 called Bofacece, from the wheel-shaped 

 corolla, Hoftonia, Evgl. Bot t, 364, Lysi" 



