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Of the jMcwoecia $ or Vegetables that throw out diftin£fc 



male and female Flowers, from different parts of the 



fame Plant. 



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as have one, two, three, four, or five Filaments in every 



male Flower. 



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YNOMORIUM i. Erefium, 



fquama 



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:ylindraceum t nudum j prima estate 





Cvnomo 



The upright Cy 





This little plant isfeldom met with but in the mod fhady inland woods: it grows 

 in beds, and rifes generally to the height of three, four, or five inches 5 but is commonly 

 fmalleft towards the bottom. At firft it is covered pretty thick with fcales of the figure 

 of a heart ; which fall off gradually as it rifes, and expofe the body of the 

 thickly befet with little transparent denticles^ intermixed with a few tubular trifid 



flowers, that jet above the level of the furf; 

 and flefhy, and all the parts aftring 



The Item of the plant is fucculent 





LEMNA 1. Minima monorhifos, foliolis orbicul 





An > Lemna foliis Jejjilibus planiufcul 



Lens palujl, 



RaiiH 



did bus Soli 



L.Sp.PI 



Duck-weed 



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This little aquatic plant grows in fome of the fmall ponds of Jamaica; but it is 

 not common, nor put to any ufe there. 



OMPHALANDRIA 1. Frutefcens diffufa, foliis amplioribus ovatis, petiolis 



biglandulis, racemis terminalibus. 



The large-leafed Omphalandria, with two Antherce or male parts. 



Flora alii mares t alii femince in iifdem racemis. 



Mas. 



Periantium Quadri- vel quinque-pbyllum, foliolis cochleatis fubrotundis. 



Corolla Nulla. 



Stamina Nulla. Neflarium crajjum umbonatum fubrotundum, in medio cali 



cisjitum^fujientaculumprcebet anther is ge minis, later i bus nefta- 



rii oppofitis longitudinaliter immerjis. 



Periantium Vt in mare. 



Faemina. 

 Corolla Nulla. 







Stamina Nulla. 



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Piftilium. Germen ovatum ; ftylus brevis ; ft igma Jubtrifidum. 

 Pericarpium. Capfula carnofa, ovata, trilocularis. 

 Semina Soli t aria oblonza. 



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