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CLASS IV. 

 TETRANDRIA. 



f Can it be believed, that Nature bestowed beauty on the foliage of a flower 

 but with a view to please ? The fruit might be produced, in the same 

 process, without any richness and diversity of colour. No other animals 

 are sensible of their grace but the human ; and yet the austere man of 

 business, or the vain man of pleasure, will arraign another with a face 

 of importance for his admiration of a flower. He calls the taste trifling 

 and useless. But is not a refusal to be pleased with such appearances, 

 like the malignant unthankfulness of a sullen guest, who refuses to taste 

 the most delicious dainties prepared for his entertainment ?"-- Dr V. 

 Kxox. 



I. MONOGYNIA. 



* Flowers monopetalous, superior, single-seeded. 



43. DIP SAC us. Common calyx of many leaves ; proper calyx 



single, superior, of 1 leaf, cup-shaped, crowning the seed. 

 (Flowers capitate.) 



44. SCABIOSA. Common calyx of many leaves ; proper calyx 



double, superior, crowning the seed. (Flowers capitate.) 



* * Flowers monopetalous, superior, 2-seeded. 



47. GALIUM. Corolla flat; fruit dry. (Flowers corymbose or 

 panicled, lateral or terminal.) 



tG. ASPERULA. Corolla tubular ; fruit without a crown. (Flowers 

 terminal? panicled.) 



