POLYANDRIA. 



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POLYANDRIA. 



3. TRIGYNIA (Three Pistils.) 



SORBUS, Service, or Mountain Ash Calix five-cleft; petals 

 five; berry inferior, three-sided. 



SESUVIUM Calix six-parted, coloured ; petals none; cap- 

 sule ovate, three-celled, cut round, many-seeded. 



4. PENTAGYNIA (Five Pistils.) 



MESPILUS, Medlar Calix five-cleft; petals five; berry 



inferior, five-seeded. 

 PYRUS, Pear and Apple Trees Calix five-cleft; petals 



five; pome inferior, five-celled ; seeds two in each cell. 

 TETIIAGONIA Calix three to five parted ; petals none ; 



drupe inferior, enclosing a nut, from three to eight celled. 

 MESEMBRYANTHEMUM, Fig Marigold Calix five-cleft; 



petals numerous, linear; capsule fleshy, inferior, many- 

 seeded. 

 AIZOON Calix five-parted ; petals none ; capsule superior, 



five-celled, five-valved. 

 SPIRAEA, Dropwort and Meadow Sweet Calix five-cleft; 



petals five ; capsule many-seeded. 



5. POLYGYNIA (Many Pistils.) 



ROSA, Rose Calix pitcher-shaped, five-cleft, fleshy, con- 

 tracted at the neck; petals five; seeds very many, hispid, 

 fastened to the inner side of the calix. 



RUBUS, Bramble, Raspberry, fyc. Calix five-cleft; petals 

 five ; berry composed of one-seeded acini. 



FRAGAIUA, Strawberry Calix inferior, in ten segments ; 

 petals five ; receptacles of the seed ovate, pulpy, deci- 

 duous. 



POTENTILLA, Cinquefoil Calix ten-cleft; petals five; seeds 

 roundish, naked, fastened to a small juiceless receptacle. 



TORMENTILLA, Tormentil Calix eight-cleft, inferior; petals 

 four; seeds roundish, naked, wrinkled, fastened to a small 

 juiceless receptacle. 



GEUM, Avens, or Herb Bennet Calix ten-cleft; petals five; 

 seeds with a kneed awn. 



DRYAS Calix five or ten cleft ; petals five to eight; seeds 

 tailed, hairy. 



COMARUM, Marsh Cinquefoil Calix ten-cleft; petals five, 

 smaller than the calix ; receptacle of the seed ovate, 

 spongy, permanent. 



CALYCANTHUS, Virginian Allspice Calix one-leafed, pitcher- 

 shaped, squarrose, with coloured leaflets ; corolla calycine; 

 styles very many, with a glandulous stigma; seeds very 

 many, tailed, with a succulent calix. 



DALIBARDA Calix inferior, five-cleft, spreading; petals 

 . five; styles five to eight, long and deciduous; seeds dry. 



CLASS XIII. FOX.VANDB.IA. 



Consisting of Plants having upwards of twenty Stamens, 

 standing upon the. Receptacle, instead of growing from the 

 sides of the Calix, as in the twelfth class. Alost of the 

 plants in this class are noxious or unwholesome. 



1. MONOGYNIA (One Pistil.) 



1. Such as have scarcely any Style. 



MARCGRAVIA Corolla one-petalled, calyptre-shaped ; calix 

 six-leaved, imbricate ; berry many-celled, many-seeded. 



RHEEDIA Calix none; corolla four-petalled ; berry three- 

 seeded. 



CAPPARIS, Caper Bush Calix four-leaved, coriaceous; pe- 

 tals four ; stamens long ; berry corticose, one-celled, pedi- 

 celled. 



ACTSA, Herb Christopher Calix four-leaved ; corolla four- 

 petalled; berry one-celled; seeds semi-orbicular, in two 

 rows. 



SANGUINARIA, Bloodwort, or Puccoon Calix two-leaved; 

 corolla eight-petalled ; silique ovate, one-celled. 



PODOPHYLLUM, Duck's-foot Calix three-leaved; corolla 

 nine-petalled ; berry one-celled, crowned with the stigma. 



CHELIDOUIUM, Celandine Corolla four-petalled; calix two- 

 leaved ; silique one-celled, linear. 



PAPAVER, Poppy Calix two-leaved ; corolla four-petalled; 

 capsule one-celled, opening by pores under the permanent 

 stigma. 



ARGEMONE, Prickly Poppy Corolla six-petalled ; calix 

 three-leaved ; capsule half-valved. 



MUNTINGIA Calix five-parted; corolla five-petalled ; berry 

 five-seeded, (Gsertner says, many-celled ;) seeds many, 

 nestling. 



CAMBOGIA Corolla four-petalled ; calix four-leaved ; pome 

 eight-celled ; seeds solitary. 



SARRACENIA, Sidesaddle-flower Calix double, outer three- 

 leaved, inner five-leaved-; corolla five-petalled; capsule 

 five-celled, with the style having a shield-like stigma. 



NYMPHJEA, Water Lily Calix four, five, or six leaved; 

 corolla many-petalled ; berry many-celled, truncated. 



2. Such as have a Style of some length. 



BIXA, Arnotta Corolla ten-petalled; calix five-toothed; 

 calix hispid, bivalve. 



SLOANEA Calix one-leafed, from five to nine cleft; corolla 

 none ; anthers growing to the filaments below the top ; 

 capsule echinate, from three to six celled, with as many 

 valves; seeds two, in a berried aril. 



MAMMEA, American Mammee Calix one-leafed, two-parted; 

 corolla four-petalled ; berry very large, four-seeded. 



OCHNA Calix five-leaved ; corolla five-petalled ; berries 

 one-seeded, fastened to a large roundish receptacle. 



CALOPHYLLI>M Calix four-leaved, coloured; corolla four- 

 petalled ; drupe globular. 



GRIAS, Anchovy Pear Corolla four-petalled; calix four- 

 cleft; stigma sessile, cross-shaped ; with an eight-furrowed 

 nucleus. 



TILIA, Lime Tree Calix five-parted; corolla five-petalled; 

 capsule coriaceous, globular, five-celled, five-valved, open- 

 ing at the base. 



LAETIA Calix five-leaved ; corolla five-petalled, or none ; 

 fruit one-celled, three-cornered ; seeds with a pulpy aril. 



EL^EOCARPUS Petals three to five, torn ; anthers with two 

 valves at the summit; calix in three to five segments; 

 drupe superior, with a furrowed crisped nut. 



LECYTHIS Calix six-leaved; corolla six-petalled; nectary 

 ligulate, stameniferous ; pericarp circumcised, many- 

 seeded. 



VATERIA Calix five-cleft; corolla five-petalled; capsule 

 three-valved, one-celled, one-seeded. 



TIIEA, Tea Tree Corolla six or nine petalled; calix five or 

 six leaved ; capsule tricoccous. 



CARYOPHYI.LUS, Clove Tree Calix four-leaved, duplicate; 

 corolla four petalled ; drupe globular. 



MENTZELIA Calix five-leaved ; corolla five-petalled ; cap- 

 sule inferior, cylindric, many-seeded. 



DELIMA Calix five-leaved; corolla none; berry with two 

 seeds. 



