MONANDRIA. 



CLASS I. 



OXE STAMEN. 



This Class has txco Orders. 

 ORDER I. 



.\ [ ARE'S -TAIL. This plant has only one Stamen 

 and one Pistillum, and each flower produces only 

 one seed. It is found in ditches and pools, and on 

 the borders of slow streams ; it is not very common, 

 but grows in several parts of Norfolk, and in the 

 neighbourhood of London. It blossoms in May and 

 Jane. 



At the bottom of each leaf there is a small flower 

 of the simplest kind, consisting only of one oval Ger- 

 men without a Corolla, terminating in a thread-shaped 

 pointed style, by the side of which stands one Stamen 

 with a two-lobed anthera. When young this anthera 

 is large and reddish, sitting close to the Germen with- 

 out any filament, as in Fig. 1. Afterwards in a more 

 advanced state the anthera is raised, supported on a 

 filament and detached from the style, as in Fig. 2. As 

 the parts of fructification often vary in shape and cha- 

 racter in different stages of their growth, this may serve 

 as an example, and perhaps in some cases prevent an 

 unexpected difference of appearance in other plants, 

 from being misunderstood. 



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