200 JliSSIEIJ S NATURAL SYSTEM. 



iimti or inferior to the germen, single, deeply divided 

 into several pieces, and generally no corolla. 



The place of the calyx is sometimes supplied by hypogynons sta- 

 mens, bearing scales, or by scales alternating with the stamens , 

 their filaments are separate or united into a single bundle ; pistil is 

 single, superior, or with one or more stigmas ; stigma simple or 

 cleft, sometimes sessile ; fruit one or many-seeded, or a naked seed, 

 superior. 



24. The orders of hypocalyciae are four, from the 

 forty-fourth to the forty-seventh, viz. a>naranthea>, plan- 

 taginea, nyctaginece and plumbagineee. 



44. Amarantheae Amaranthus. 



<). Plantaginex Plantago. 



46. Nyctagineae Mirabilis. 



47. Plombagines Statirp. 



MONOPETALOl'S DICOTYLEDONES. 



25. Dicotyledonous plants with one petal. Divided 

 into three sets, distinguished by the situation of the 

 corolla ; viz. hypocorollece, pericorollete and epicorollea. 



CLASS VIII. HYPOCOROLLEjE. 



26. The plants of this department, besides the mono- 

 petalous dicotyledonous characters, are further distin- 

 guished by their hypogynous corolla, that is, the corolla 

 is placed on the receptacle, below the germen. 



In these plants the calyx is of one leaf; corolla regular or irregu- 

 lar, bearing the stamens which are definite, and generally alternate 

 with its segments when of equal number ; germen superior, in 

 general simple with one style. Seeds either naked, or more frequently 

 in a pulpy or capsnlar seed-vessel, of one or many cells. 



