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ed it, and the specific name signifying blue, being the Latin 

 term for that colour. 



I should like to tell you more about the flowers of this class, 

 but as you proceed in your analysis of plants, you will find 

 many pretty wild-flowers which belong here, as well as some 

 splendid green-house plants. / 



CHAPTER XXII. ^ 



Class 5th Class 6th. 

 CLASS V. PENTANDRIA, five stamens. 

 Order 1. Monogynia, one pistil. 



546. The fifth class is said to include about a tenth part o/ 

 all known species of plants. The flowers of this class have 

 five separate stamens, whi].e those of the class Syngenesia 

 have five stamens whose anthers are united. 



Fig. 76. 547. Fig. 76. shoAvs you, at #, a flow 



er called Loose-strife ; this in Botany is 

 known by the generic name Lysimachia, 

 which is derived from Lysimachus, the 

 discoverer of the medical virtues of an 

 ancient plant so named. You may find 

 several different species of this plant in 

 June and July by the sides of brooks 

 and in low meadow-grounds. The flow- 

 ers are wheel-form, and generally yel- 

 low. 



At 6, (Fig. 76,) is a picture of the 

 blossom of the trumpet honeysuckle, 

 called Lonicera, from Lonicer, a bota 

 nist of the 16th century. This flowei 

 has a very small five-cleft calyx, which is superior or above 

 the germ ; ihe corolla is monopetalous, and tubular ; the tube 

 is oblong, the limb of the corolla is deeply divided into five ~e- 

 volute parts or segments, one of which is separated from the 

 others; the filaments are exserted, the anthers oblong. 



545. In what class and order did the lady find the flower of Iniio 

 cence, and what is its botanical name 1 



546. What is said of the plants of the fifth class? 



547. What does Fig. 76 represent ? 



