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adhering firmly, ovules one or two. Fruit dry, one or 
two-seeded. 
4. Pistiacee.—F lowers two, naked, enclosed in a spatha. 
Barren flowers, stamens definite. Fertile, ovary one- 
celled, with one or more erect ovules. Style short, 
stigma simple. 
5. Naiadacee.—Divisions of calyx and petals minute, in 
a power of two, falling off, alike. Stamens in a cor- 
responding number. Carpels distinct, one-seeded, 
same number as the stamens, or fewer. 
6. Orchidaceea.—Flowers with six divisions, irregular, calyx 
and petals alike in colour and texture. Stamens and 
style consolidated into a central column. 
7. [ridacee.—-F lowers in six divisions, but regular. Sta- 
mens three. Carpels three, united into an inferior 
three-celled ovary. 
8. Amaryllidacee.—F lowers like the last. Stamens six. 
Carpels three, united into an inferior three-celled ovary. 
9. Liliacee.—Flowers the same as the last. Stamens six. 
Carpels three, united into a superior three-celled ovary. 
10. Aracee.—Stamens and pistils in different flowers, which 
are naked, having neither calyx nor corolla, inclosed 
in a spatha. 
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