MONANDRIA. 



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MONANDRIA. 



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character, as have their seeds contained in a siliqua, 

 or long slender pod, to each suture of which they are 

 alternately attached ; a, the siliqua. 



15. Polygamia JEqualis, the first order in the class SYN- 



GENESIA ; a, a floret separated from the aggregate. 



16. Polygamia Superflua, the second order in the class SYN- 



GENESIA; a, represents a female floret in the cir- 

 cumference or ray; b, an hermaphrodite floret in the 

 centre or disk. 



17. Polygamia Frustranea, the third order in the class SYN- 



GENESIA. 



18. Polygamia Necessaria, the fourth order in the class SYN- 



GENESIA. 



19. Polygamia Segregata, the fifth order in the class SYN- 



GENESIA; a, a floret with its proper flower-cup de- 

 tached from the aggregate. 





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20. Monogamia, the sixth order in the class SY.VGENESIA ; 

 a, representing a section of the flower, to exhibit the 

 union of the stamens by the anthers. 



2j ( Tricecia, the third order in the class POLYGAMIA, in 

 go') which hermaphrodite flowers are intermingled with 

 * male or female flowers, or both, on one, two, or 

 ' L three plants. 



24. Filices, Ferns, the first order, ~\ 



25. Musci, Mosses, the second order, f in the class 



26. Algte, Sea-weed, &c. the third order, f CRYPTOGAMIA. 



27. Fungi, Mushrooms, the fourth order, j 



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reckoned, viz. HEPATIC.K, small herbaceous plants re- 

 sembling Mosses; and MISCELLANEA, including plants not 

 easily referable to any of the five foregoing orders. 



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CLASS X. MONANDRIA. 



This Class consists of Plants having one Stamen only in each 

 Flower, with the Pistil, or Pistils 



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1. MONOGYNIA (One Pistil.) 



1. Trilocular, such as have the Pericarp divided into three 

 Loculaments. 



CANNA, Indian Shot Corolla six-parted, erect; lip two- 

 parted, revolute ; style lanceolate, growing to the corolla ; 

 calix three-leaved. 



AMOMUM, Ginger Calix trifid, unequal, cylindric ; corolla 

 three-parted, unequal, spreading ; nectary two-lipped, 

 almost erect. 



COSTUS Corolla inflated, ringent, the lower lip trifid. 



ALPINIA Calix three-toothed, equal, tubulose ; corolla 

 three-parted, equal ; nectary two-lipped, the lower lip 

 spreading. 



MARANTA, Indian Arrow-Root Calix three-leaved; corolla 

 trifid ; nectary three-parted, the third part bearing the 

 anthers on its upper side. Or, calix of three leaves ; 

 corolla of one petal, in five segments ; anthers simple, on 

 the edge of the filament; style petal-like; stigma some- 

 what triangular; nut solitary, of three cells. 



CURCUMA, Turmeric Stamens, four barren, a fifth fertile; 

 corolla four-parted; nectary three-lobed. 



K^MPFERIA, Galangalc Corolla six-parted, three of the 

 parts larger, spreading, one or two parted ; stigma two- 

 plaited. 

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KALIA Calix three-leaved ; corolla five-petalled, the two 

 inner petals less ; nectary lanceolate, concave ; drupe with 

 a one-celled nut. 



MYBOSMA Calix double, outer three-leaved, inner three- 

 parted; corolla five-parted, irregular; capsule fcree- 

 cornered, three-celled, many-seeded. 



2. Monospermous, such as have a single Seed. 



BOERHAAVIA, Hog-weed Calix small, entire ; corolla one- 

 petalled, bell-shaped, plaited; seed one, naked, inferior; 

 stamens one, two, or three. 



SALICORNIA, Jointed Glasswort Calix ventricose, entire; 

 petals none ; stamens one or two ; seed one, covered by 

 the calix. 



HIPPURUS, Mwe's-tail Calix a two-lobed rim to the ger- 

 men ; corolla none; stigma simple ; seed one, inferior. 



MITHRIDATEA, Drum-tree Calix, common four-cleft, en- 

 larged, fleshy, containing the seeds; corolla none; fruit 

 globular, depressed; seeds solitary, arilled. 



ZOSTERA, Grass Wrack Spadix linear, sheathed by the 

 base of a leaf, bearing the flowers on one side ; perianth 

 and corolla none; anther sessile; stigmas two, linear; 



capsule with one seed. 



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HEDYCHIUM Anther two-lobed, recurved, terminal, em- 

 bracing the style, without any appendage ; outer border of 

 the corolla in three equal linear lobes; inner in three 

 parts, two-lipped ; flowers reversed ; tube longer than the 

 border. 



LOPEZIA Calix superior, of four unequal leaves; corolla 

 irregular, of four petals ; nectary stalked, folded, opposite 



