47* MONOECIA. 



justly associated with them by Schreber, 

 though placed by Linnaeus in the Order 

 Triandria, and this alteration is the more 

 fortunate, as one of its species is diandrous. 

 StercuUa is best removed to the 11th Class, 

 next to Kkinhovia, 



9' Poli/adelpliia. If the system should be 

 preserved in its present state, without re- 

 gard to agreement or difference in the ac* 

 cessory parts of the barren and fertile 

 flowers, I conceive this Order might be 

 established for the reception of the Gourd 

 tribe, as already hinted under the 5th Or- 

 der, Their filaments are united, m 3 sets, 

 a character much more intelligible and 

 constant than the casual and irregular con- 

 nexion of their anthers, which led Linnteus 

 to reckon them syngenesious ; for they 

 only afford an additional proof that union 

 ot anthers is, in simple flowers, neither a 

 good natural nor artificial guide. If the 

 monoecious and dioecious Classes be re- 

 formed according to the plan to which I 

 have so often adverted, these plants should 

 go to the Class Fohjadelphia. 



