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Class 5. Pentandria. Stamens 5. A very large class* 

 Orders 6. 



1 . Monogynla. One of the largest and most important 

 Orders of the whole system. The genera are enume- 

 rated first artificially, according to the corolla being 

 of one petal or more, or wanting ; inferior or supe 

 rior ; with naked or covered seeds ; but stand in 

 the system according to their affinities, and compose 

 some natural orders ; as AsperifolicBy rough-leaved 

 plants, which have a monopetalous inferior corolla, 

 and four naked seeds, with always more or less of 

 spinous bristles or callous asperities on their foliage; 

 see Borago, Engl. Bot. t. 36, Lycopsis, t, 938, 

 and Echiu/n, t. 181. Next comes that most elegant 

 tribe of spring plants denominated PrecicE by Lin- 

 naeus, Primula J t. 4 — 6, Cyclamen, t. 548, the 

 charming alpine Aretia, and Androsace, Curt, Mag, 

 t, 743. These are followed by another Linnagan 

 order, nearly akin, called Rotacece, from the wheel- 

 shaped corolla, Hottonia^ Engl. Bot. t. 364, Lysi- 

 machia, t. 761. — Convolvulus and Campanula, two 

 large well-known genera, come afterwards ; then 

 Lobelia, t. 140, Impatiens, t. 9^7, and Viola, 

 t, 619, 620, brought hither from the abolished 

 Linna3an order Syngenesia Monogamia. The Lii- 

 7^idce follow, so called from their frequently dark, 

 gloomy aspect^ indicative of their narcotic and very 

 dangerous qualities; as Datura, t. 1288, ^06- 

 cyamus, t, 591, Atropa, t, 592, and Nicotiana, or 



