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could hardly be referred to the Class Syngenesia* ; 

 particularly Xanthium and Ntphd'mm^ whose fer- 

 tile flowers have no resemblance to that Class. 

 Amaranthus, an extensive dung-hill genus in warm 

 countries, analogous to our Chenopodiumy follows 

 next. Leea is the same with Jtquiiicia, and belongs 

 to Fentandr'ia Monogijiiia, the former name being 

 retained for the sake of the highly meritorious bo- 

 tanist and cultivator whom it commemorates. The 

 Gourd tribe, Cucurbita, Cucumis, Bryonia, EngL 

 Bot, t. 439, might be brought hither from the 

 abolished Order Sy?igenesla, unless it should be 

 thought better to consider them as polyadelphous, 

 to which I am most inclined. 



6. Hexandria, Zizania, Tr. of Linn. Soc. t. 7. ^ 13 ; 

 and Phariis, Browne s Jamaica y ^.38, both grasses, 

 compose this Order, to which Schreber has added 

 Epibaterium and Patnetia of Forster, as well as 

 the splendid Giiettarda, Hart. Mai. v. 4. t. 48. 

 The latter varies from six to nine in the parts of the 

 flower, and constitutes the Order Heptandina in 

 Linnaeus^ according to his usual principle, of placing 

 such irregular plants, as much as possible, in small 

 Classes or Orders, that they might be the more 

 easily found. 



7. Polyandria, Stamens more than seven. Cerate- 



* Willdcnow however has removed Iva and Parthenium thither, ac- 

 cording to the original ideas of Linnaeus, in Gen. PI. ed. 1. 



