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DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 

 1. MONO'TROPA. BIHD'S-NEST. 



Calyx none. Petals ten or eight, oblong, erect, deciduous, tht 

 outermost bulging at the base, hollow within, and bearing honey. 

 Filaments awl-shaped, erect; anthers kidney-shaped, one-celled, 

 two-valved. Germen superior, roundish, tapering. Style cylin- 

 drical, short, erect. Capsule egg-shaped, with five or four furrows, 

 cells, and valves. Seeds numerous, minute, oval. Named from 

 monos, one, and trepo, to turn, the flowers being all turned one 

 way. 221. 



1. M. Hypnpitys. Yellow Birfs-nest. Flowers in a drooping cluster ; 



the lateral ones with eight, the terminal with ten stamens. Root 



fibrous, stern about eight inches high, simple, with egg-shaped scales. 

 Flowers large, of a yellowish colour. Perennial : flowers in July : grows 

 on decayed stumps of trees : not common. Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 69. 

 Eng. Fi. vol. ii. p. 247. 626. 



2. ANDRO'MEDA. ANDROMEDA. 



Calyx inferior, small, coloured, permanent, deeply divided into 

 five acute segments. Corolla of one petal, egg-shaped or bell- 

 shaped; the limb with five reflected segments. Filaments awl- 

 shaped, shorter than the corolla ; anthers two-celled, opening by 

 two terminal pores, and surmounted by two horns. Germen 

 roundish. Style cylindrical, longer than the stamens, permanent ; 

 stigma obtuse. Capsule roundish, five-cornered, five-celled, five- 

 valved, with partitions from the centre of the valves. Seeds 

 numerous, roundish. Named after Andromeda, from a fancied 

 resemblance in its circumstances. 222. 



1. A. polifolia. Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rosemary. Clusters ter- 

 minal ; leaves alternate, lance-shaped, revolute, glaucous beneath. 

 A shrub, about six inches high, with pendulous, rose-coloured flowers, 

 in clusters: flowers in June: grows on wet heaths in the north it 

 England, and in Scotland: not common. Eng. Bot. vol. x. pi. 713. 

 Eng. FL vol. ii. p. 251. 627. 



3. A'RBUTUS. BEAR-BERRY. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, small, divided into five obtuse 

 segments. Corolla of one petal, egg-shaped, transparent at the 

 base ; the limb with five small, recurved segments. Filaments 

 awl-shaped, swelling in the middle, half as long as the corolla ; 

 anthers two-celled, opening by two terminal pores, and bearing- 

 two short horns. Germen superior, roundish, sitting upon a ten- 

 dotted receptacle. Style cylindrical, as long as the corolla ; stigma 

 rather thick and blunt. Berry roundish, five-celled. Seeds small, 

 angular, bony. Name of Celtic origin : ar, rough, and boise, a 

 bush. 223. 



1. A. Untdo. Strawberry Tree. Stem woody ; leaves smooth, bluntly 



serrate; panicles terminal; berry many-seeded. A bushy tree, with 



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