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chin. — Thus the ELEGIDES include Elrgia^ 

 Trisfeinoti, Calorophus, Jialoskion, Abhotia 

 and perhaps other Genera; they are very near 

 to XuiiiDEs 17, differing by no real internal co- 

 rolla. 



890. CiioNDuoPETALON Rotb. diff. ^^5/io cal. 

 ineq. 3 internis major cartilagineis — Type. C7i. 

 tectorum. Restio do L. aiict. 



8.)1. Leilna Raf. (one less) diff. Restio 

 stam. 2. stylis "2. all the sp. with "l instead of 3 

 stamens and styles belong here. The Resti- 

 DLs or Restiacea family differ from Juncidesby 

 fruit monosperm, and besides these 3 Genera 

 include others from the Southern Hemisphere. 



89*2. PiJYi.iDRU3i Gaertn. Sm. Garciana Lour. 

 Perigono 2phyIo corolliforme, stam. 3 ad uno 

 petalo inserta. Ovar. libero, stylo filif. stig. ca- 

 pit. caps. 31oc. 3valv. polysp. rad. fibrosis^ foL 

 ensatls, fl. spicatis.—^'i sp. Pli. lanuginosum 

 and pij!^NU'um. Of family Xlridia, but type 

 of a subf. Phylidrines. 



893. Nemitis R. (fil. pi.) Apteria Nut. 1834. 

 Ov. inf cor. tubul. camp. Odentatis alt. minor, 

 stam 3 in tubo, stylo filif. stig. 3 cuneatis, caps, 

 coronata mcnoloc, polysp. placentas 3. Kad. 

 fibr.caule squamo so.— Type Nemitis setncea 

 Raf. Apteria do Nut. ic. cnule filif l-4fl. squa- 

 mis remotis brevis sphacelatis. Florida, Ala- 

 bama and Missouri ! minute annual plant, fl. 

 white. — Nuttol makes a new family of this with 

 Tripterella, it differs from it as Luzula from 

 Juiicus; hwi Biirniannia w'wh G stamens can- 

 not belong to it. All the monocotyle with 3 

 stamens are essentialy different from those with 

 6. In fact the staminate numbers are of 

 greater importance in Monocotyles than in 

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