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154. Tetrandria: Where the flowers of the barren 

 plant, are furnished with four stamens. 



Examples of this order, are presented in the different genera, 

 viscum or misseltoe, amber-tree, ramoon-tree, sea-buckthorn and 

 myrica or candle-berry-myrtle. The last genus affords a very fami- 

 liar native species called the myrica gale or sweet-gale. 



155. Petandria: When the flowers of the barren 

 plant, have five stamens. 



The common hop, bastard-hemp, common hemp, the spinage of 

 our gardens, the tooth-ache-tree, and a Cape genus called leucaden- 

 dron, are the principal productions of this order. 



156. Hexandria: When the flowers of the barren 

 plant are furnished with six stamens. 



Here we meet with the common black bryony of our own country, 

 the yam or dioscorea of the Indies, and the oily-palm-tree of Guinea. 



157. Octandria : When the flowers of the barren 

 plant, are furnished with eight stamens. 



The common rose-root or rhodiola, and the white, hoary, black 

 and trembling poplar-trees of this country, have received their 

 arrangement in this part of the system. 



158. Polyandria : In which the flowers of the barren 

 plant, have more than eight stamens. 



This order will afford us, as examples, the annual and perennial 

 mercury, frog-bit, papaw-tree, Canadian bonduc, the hyaena-poison 

 a Cape plant, the family menispermum or moonseed, the cycas or 

 sago-palm, and the genera zamia, cliffortia, &c. 



159. Monadelphia: Embracing those plants of the 



