OCTANDRIA. 421 



remarkable, having the calyx in 7 dct'p 

 segments, 7 petals, 7 germens, and con- 

 sequently 7 capsules. 



Class 8. Octandt'ia. Stamens 8. Orders 4- 



1, Mono^iin'ui. A w.xy various and rich or- 

 der, consisting of the wcll-lviioun Tropav- 

 liint or Nasturtium, whose original Latin 

 name, given trom the flavour ot" the plant, 

 like Garden Cresses, is now become its 

 English one in every body's moiitli. The 

 elegant and fanciful Linntcan appellation, 

 equivalent to a fropliy plant, alludes to its 

 use for decorating bowers, and the re- 

 semblance of its peltate leaves to shields, 

 as well as of its flowers to golden helmets,, 

 pierced through and ihrough, and stained 

 with blood. See Linn, llort. Ciiff, 143. — 

 Epilobium, Engl. Bot, t. 858,' 79.3, c^c, 

 with its allies, makes a beautiful part of this 

 order; but above all are conspicuous the 

 favourite Fuchsia^ the chiefly American 

 genus Faccinium, t. 456, 319, &c.; the 

 immense and most elegant genus Erica, 

 60 abundant in southern Africa, but not 

 known in America; and the fragrant 



