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lypha, Croton, Jatropha, Ricinus, and several others 

 of the natural order of Euphorbice, acrid milky 

 plants, form a conspicuous and legitimate part of 

 Monoccia Monaddphia. Omphalea is justly asso- 

 ciated with them by Schreber, though placed by 

 Linnaeus in the Order Trimidria, and this alteration 

 is the more fortunate, as one of its species is dian- 

 drous. SteixuUa is best removed to the eleventh 

 Class, next to Kleinhovia. 



9, Polj/adelphla. If the system should be preserved 

 in its present state, without regard to agreement or 

 difference in the accessory parts of the barren and 

 fertile flowers, I conceive this Order mio;ht be esta- 

 blished for the reception of the Gourd tribe, as 

 already hinted under the fifth Order. Their fila- 

 ments are united, in three sets, a character much 

 more inteUidble and constant than the casual and 

 irregular connexion of their anthers, which led Lin- 

 naeus to reckon them syngenesious ; for they only 

 afford an additional proof that union of anthers is, 

 in simple flou ers, neither a good natural nor arti- 

 ficial guide. If the monoecious and dioecious 

 Classes be reformed according to the plan to which 

 I have so often adverted, these plants should go to 

 the Class Polijadelphia, 



10. Gynandria is scarcely tenable, being paradoxical 

 in its character, and the two Linnasan genera which 

 compose it, Andrachnc and Agyneia, seem most 



