LINN*AN ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM. 12* 



The class monandriahas no high claim to the character of a natural 

 class. Indeed it brings together vegetables of very unlike habits , or 

 appearance, and of very opposite qualities. The hare's-tail and 

 glass-wort on the one hand, are very far removed from the Indian- 

 shot and amomum on the other. Nevertheless, the first class con- 

 tains several plants nearly allied to each other, as the amomum, tur- 

 meric, thalia, arrow-root, galangale, Indian-shot, alpinia, ginger, 

 and others. 



5. Division : There are only two orders in this 

 class ; viz. tnonogynia and digynia ; both derived from 

 the number of pistils in each flower. 



6. Monogynia: This order comprehends those flow- 

 ers of the first class, which have but one pistil. 



The ginger, turmeric, glass-wort, grains-of-Paradise, galangale, 

 opera-girls, arrow -root, and common mare's-tail, are plants of the 

 class monandria, order monogynia. 



7. Digynia: Embracing those flowers of the class, 

 which have two pistils. 



The common water star-wort, a native annual of Britain, and a 

 few other genera of plants, compose the order in question. 



CLASS II. DIANDRIA. 



8. Character: In this class are comprehended, 

 such plants as bear flowers with two stamens. (F. 175.) 



The class diandria, though not a natural class, embraces some 

 assemblages of vegetables which are considerably allied to one ano- 

 ther. Such are the olive, the snow-tree, the privet, the lilac, on the 

 one hand; and on the other hand, a number of plants with ringent 

 flowers and naked seeds, such as the raonarda, rosemary, sage, &c. 



9. Division: There are three orders in this class ; 



