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from the 20th Class, seem to me perfectly 

 intelligible as simple monoecious flowers, 

 the barren one, with many stamens, being 

 superior or interior with respect to the 

 fertile, like the generality of monoecious 

 as well as all compound flowers, and not 

 inferior, or, as in every simple one, ex- 

 terior. 



8. Monadelphia. The Fir, Pinus, so mag- 

 nificently illustrated by Mr. Lambert, is 

 very distinct in its two kinds of flowers. 

 Each barren one consists of a naked tuft 

 of monadelphous stamens, accompanied 

 only by a few bracteas at the base. The 

 fertile ones are catkins, \\ ith similar brac- 

 teas, each scale bearing on its upper side 

 a pair of winged seeds, and on its under a ' 

 leaf-like style and acute stigma; as Jussieu 

 first, rightly I believe, suggested, though 

 some botanists have understood these parts 

 otherwise. Acali/pha, Croion, Jatropha, 

 Ricinus, and several others of the natural 

 order of Euphorbia, acrid milky plants, 

 form a conspicuous and legitiiiiate part of 

 Monoecia Monadelphia. Omphaka i< 



