218 CLASS MONOE'CIA. 



say any thing more about them. The substance 

 called Salop is prepared from the root of one spe- 

 cies, the early purple Orchis, Orchis ma'scula. 



In the classes Monoecia and Dioecia, and in part 

 of Polygamia, all the flowers are imperfect ; some 

 being without stamens, others without pistils. 



In the twenty-first, MONOECIA [PLATE 2. fig. 

 21.], some of the flowers have stamens only, and 

 others, on the same plant, only pistils ; but none 

 of them have both. This class contains a great 

 number of important genera. 



The Bread-fruit-tree, Artocar'pus inci'sa, which 

 is of great use to the inhabitants of the South- Sea 

 Islands, belongs to one of these genera. It grows to 

 the height of about forty feet, and the fruit which is 

 as large as a child's head, hangs upon the boughs 

 like apples. The eatable part lies between the 

 skin and the core : it is very white, soft, and of the 

 consistence of new bread, with a sweetish taste, 

 like that of the Jerusalem artichoke ; but it must 

 be roasted before it is eaten. The fruit is fit for 

 use, for about seven months of the year, and during 

 the whole of that time supplies very wholesome 

 and agreeable food to the inhabitants of the islands; 

 who also make cloth of the bark of the tree, and 

 use the wood in building their huts and canoes. 

 There is another species of this genus, the Arto- 

 car'pus integrifo'lia, or Indian Jaca-tree, which is 

 a native of the East Indies : its fruit is said to 



