118 | MONANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
generally agreed that the flowers contain only 1 stamen, 1 
pistil, and 1 seed; so that notwithstanding its natural affinity 
to the genus Alchemilla, in the class Tetrandia, it ought in an 
artificial system to occupy its present place. 
SALICOR'NIA. Tournefort, 485. Geertner, 127. 
Catyx 4-comered ; lopped ; bellying ; permanent. 
Boss. none. | oe 
StaMEN. Filament single, undivided, longer than_ the 
cup. Anther double, oblong upright. } 
PistiL. Germen oblong-egg-shaped. Style undivided, 
___ Standing under the stamen. Summit cloven. 8 
S. Vess. none. The calyx bellying and inflated contains 
the seed. Se. ry 
SEED single. , 
_ Oxs. The number of stamens is not very certain; some- 
times there are 2 in each flower, Linn, 
HIPPURIS. Gaertn. 84. 
Canyx a 2-lobed rim, crowning the germen. __ 
_ Bross, none. . Mid 
Stamen, Filament single, upright, fixed within the outer: 
lobe of the calyx. “Anther roundish, compressed. 
Pist11.. Germen oblo , beneath. Style single, upright,’ — 
awl-shaped, longer than the stamen, fixed to the mner — 
lobe of the calyx, Summit acute. : 
S. Vess. none. 
SEED single, roundish, naked. 
Oxs. Mr. Curtis descrihes the stamen as standing upon the 
top of the germen: and says, that at the close of summer, he 
has found flowers without a stamen ; and Scopoli has observed, _ 
that such flowers are sometimes intermixed with the others. 
DIGYNI4. 
CALLITRICHE, Gertn. 68, 
Caryx none, 
Paes aeol 5 bowed inwards, chenpeliens ete _ 
STAMEN. Filament single, long, bowed. _Anther simple. 
Pist, Germen nearly round, Siyles 2, hair-like, bowed. 
