22 INTRODUCTION TO 
description* agrees with our flower, but there it appears that 
the 3 inner and shorter petals may be considered as a Nectary. 
As there is but one species, it must therefore be the Galanthus 
nivalis, or common Snow-drop, i 
EXAMPLE VIII. ‘ 
DAPHNE. | (Mezereon.) 
In February the Mezereon is in blofsom, and, though rarely 
found wild, is often met with in the garden. Its Stamens being 
8 in number, we turn to the Clafs Octandria, and its single 
Pistil confines our enquiries to the Order Monogynia, ‘This 
being divided into complete and incomplete flowers, we conclude 
that the flower before us belongs to the latter subdivision, 
because it wants a Calyx, The character of Daphne corre- 
sponds with our Flower, and there is no other Genus in that 
subdivision. The examination of the Generic description, 
confirms our determination. We find two British Species, 
but in that before us, the flowers are sitting, and grow by 
threes ; it must therefore be the Daphne Mezereum, orcomman 
Mezereon, — | 
EXAMPLE IX. 
_ LYCH'NIS. (Cuckow-flower.) 
White or Red Campion ; Batchelors Buttons; Lychnis: it 
grows wild in woods and ditch-banks, flowering all summer. 
After examining several of the flowers, finding 10 Stamens in 
each, and the Filaments not united ; observing also no vestige . 
of any Pistil, we begin to suspect that it is one of those plants - 
in which the Stamens and Pistils ‘are_contained in separate 
flowers, and upon distinct plants, In this state of doubt we 
go to the place where the plant was gathered, and, after exe 
amining several, at length find that the Flowers containing 
Stamens, and the Flowers containing: Pistils, do grow upon 
distinct plants, Directed by the number of Stamens, we there- 
* N. B. Until a little familiarized with the disposition of the System, 
the learner is desired to consult the Index at the end of the first volume, 
to find the Generic descriptions; and the General Index at the end of the 
third yolume to find the Species, . 
