‘30 «= DIANDRIA: MONOGYNIA. 
Pist. Germen oblong, Styles 2, thread-shaped. Summits 
undivided. fax ae 
S. Vess. The Husks of the blossom grow to the seed. 
Seep single, nearly cylindrical, tapering at each end. 
Oss. It was very justly remarked to me by Miss Giddy, 
that the valves of the blossom are shorter than the calyx, and 
so they are figured very properly in the Flora Danica, 666 ; 
and less distinctly so in the fig, referred to above. 
“LASS II. 
TRIANDRIA. | 
Containing Plants with 3 Stamens in each Flower. yee: 
Lins cas the Unssinee wal sos opt edi 
SSES, and some other 
nearly allied to them. Although the flowers in ese ae 
generally disregarded, they will not, to an attentive ob- 
server, appear less curiously constructed, than those which 
of gayer colours and more conspicuous parts; 
The great solicitude of Nature for the preservation of 
grasses 1s evident from this; that the more the leaves are - 
consumed, the more the roots increase. The reat Atithor — 
of Nature designed, that the delightful verdure of these 
ae should cover the surface of ‘the earth, and that they 
ford Rsdiet ance ey Brmmeioe 
animals. But what increases a peteniene 
port 
liberty in, the 
