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CLASS II. 

 DIANDRIA. 



" With wise intent 



The hand of Nature on peculiar minds 

 Imprints a different bias, and to each 

 Decrees its province in the common toil. 



**-**#* some by the hand 

 She led o'er vales and mountains to explore 

 \Vhat healing virtue swells the tender veins 

 Of herbs and flowers." AIKENSIDE. 



I. MONOGYNIA. 



* Flowers inferior, monopetalous, regular. 



5. LIGUSTRUM. Corolla four cleft; berry with 4 seeds. 



6. FRAXINUS. Corolla none, or deeply four-cleft; capsule com- 



pressed, with 1 or 2 seeds ; some flowers without stamens. 



* * Flowers inferior, monopetalous, irregular, with seed-vessels. 



8. VERONICA. Corolla wheel-shaped, deeply four-cleft ; capsule 



of 2 cells. (Herbaceous ; leaves opposite ; flowers alter- 

 nate, mostly blue.) 



9. PINGUICULA. Corolla ringent, spurred ; capsule of 1 cell ; 



calyx five-cleft. (Marsh herbs. Leaves and flower-stalks 

 radical, simple.) 



10. UTRICULARIA. Corolla ringent, spurred; capsule of I cell; 

 calyx of 2 leaves. (Aquatic herbs. Leaves finely divided, 

 bearin ^bladders.) 



