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distinct Stamens, are excluded, and referred to the 

 tenth Class, in consideration of their number solely ; 

 as some ringent flowers with only two Stamens are 

 necessarily placed, not in the fourteenth Class, but 

 the second. 



] 8. PoLYADELPHiA. Stamens united into more than 

 two parcels, as in St. John's-wort. A small Class, 

 in some points related to Icosandria, 



19. Syngenesia. Stamens united by their Anthers 

 into a tube, rarely by their Filaments also ; and the 

 flowers are Compound. A very natural and ex- 

 tremely numerous Class. Examples of it are the 

 Dandelion, Daisy, Sunflower, &c. 



SO. Gynandria. Stamens united with, or growing 

 out of, the Pistil; either proceedingfrom theGermen, 

 as in Aristolocliia, Engl. Bot. t. 398;, or from the 

 Style, as in the Orchis family. The Passion-flower 

 is wrongly put by Linnaeus and others into this 

 Class, as its stamens merely grow out of an elon- 

 gated receptacle or column supporting the Germen. 



21. MoNOEClA. Stamens and Pistils in separate 

 flowers, but both growing on the same plant, or, as 

 the name expresses, dwelling in one house, as the 

 Oak, Hazel, and Fir. 



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