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DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



1. MONO'TROPA. BIKD'S-NEST. 



Calyx none. Petals ten or eight, oblong, erect, deciduous, 

 the outermost bulging at the base, hollow within, and bearing 

 honey. Filaments awl-shaped, erect ; anthers kidney-shaped, 

 one-celled, two-valved. Germen superior, roundish, tapering. 

 Style cylindrical, short, erect. Capsule egg-shaped, with five 

 or four furrows, cells, and valves. Seeds numerous, minute, 

 oval. Named from monos, one, and trepo, to turn, the flowers 

 being all turned one way. 221. 



1. M. Ilypopitys. Yellow Bird's-nest. Flowers in a drooping 

 cluster ; the lateral ones with eight, the terminal with ten stamens. 

 Root fibrous, stem about eight inches high, simple, with egg- 

 shaped scales. Flowers large, of a yellowish colour. Perennial : 

 flowers in July : grows on decayed stumps of trees : not common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. i. pi. 69. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 247. 626. 



2. ANDRO'MEDA. ANDROMEDA. 



Calyx inferior, small, coloured, permanent, deeply divided 

 into five acute segments. Corolla of one petal, egg-shaped or 

 bell-shaped ; the limb with five reflected segments. Filaments 

 awl-shaped, shorter than the corolla ; anthers two-celled, open- 

 ing by two terminal pores, and surmounted by two horns. 

 Germen roundish. Style cylindrical, longer than the stamens, 

 permanent ; stigma obtuse. Capsule roundish, five-cornered, 

 five-celled, five-valved, with partitions from the centre of the 

 valves. Seeds numerous, roundish. Named after Andromeda, 

 from a fancied resemblance in its circumstances. 222. 



1. A. polifolia. Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rosemary. Clusters 

 terminal ; leaves alternate, lance-shaped, revolute, glaucous be- 

 neath. A shrub, about six inches high, with pendulous, rose- 

 coloured flowers, in clusters : flowers in June : grows on wet 

 heaths in the north of England, and in Scotland : not common. 

 Eng. Bot. vol. x. pi. 713. Eng. Fl. vol. ii. p. 251. 627. 



3. A'RBUTUS. BEAR-BERRY. 



Calyx inferior, of one leaf, small, divided into five obtuse 

 segments. Corolla of one petal, egg-shaped, transparent at the 

 base ; the limb with five small, recurved segments. Filaments 

 awl-shaped, swelling in the middle, half as long as the corolla ; 

 anthers two-celled, opening by two terminal pores, and bearing 

 two short horns. Germen superior, roundish, sitting upon a 

 ten-dotted receptacle. Style cylindrical, as long as the corolla ; 

 stigma rather thick and blunt. Berry roundish, five-celled. 

 Seeds small, angular, bony. Name of Celtic origin : ar, rough, 

 and boise, a bush. 223. 



1. A. Unedo. Strawberry Tree. Stem woody ; leaves smooth, 



bluntly serrate ; panicles terminal ; berry many-seeded. A 



bushy tree, with reddish-brown bark, peeling off in thin flakes 

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