314 TETRANDRIA. 



is quadrijidus^ ^ four-cleft, and T, muscosa excludes, 

 or lays aside, one fourth of the fructification. 



Class 4. Tetrandria. Stamens 4. Orders 3. 



Monogynia. A very numerous and various Order, 

 of which the Froteacece make a conspicuous part, 

 consisting of Protea^ Bmksia, Lamhertia, Em- 

 hothrium^ &c. See Botany of New Holland, t. 7 

 — 10. Scabiosa, Engl. Bot. t. 659 ; P Ian f ago, 

 t, 1558, 1559, remarkable for its capsula clraim- 

 scissa, a membranous capsule, separating by a com- 

 plete circular fissure into two parts, as in the next 

 genus, Centu7iculus, t. 531; Rubia, t, 851, and 

 others of its natural order, of whose stipulation we 

 have spoken,/;. 167, are found here, and the curious 

 Epimedium^ t, 438. 



2. Digynia, Buffoma, t. 1313. 



Cuscuta, placed here by Linna2us,is best removed 

 t6 the next class. 



3. Tctragyn'ia, . Ilex\ t, 496, a genus sometimes 

 furnished with a few barren flowers, and therefore 

 removed by Hudson to the twenty-third Class, of 

 which this measure serves only to show the disad- 

 vantage ; Potamogeton, t. i 68, ^376, and Ruppiay 

 t. 1 36, are examples of this Order. They all have 

 sessile stiij^mas. 



* See Lhin. Sjk PL 18G, and Curt. Land. fuse. 6. f. 31. 



