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CLASS 13. POLYANDRIA. 



(Containing Plants with many Stamens, generally 

 more than twenty, inserted upon the Receptacle, 

 and not upon the Calyx, as in the last. It is 

 necessary particularly to observe the insertion of 

 the Stamens in this and the last class because in 

 that are no poisonous plants, while in this there 

 *are several very deadly.) 



Here are collected together most of the plants in which are 

 found more stamens than twenty ; it is, therefore, the last in 

 which number is considered. England produces several plants 

 of Polyandria of great interest and beauty, some of them easily 

 procured wild, as the Poppy and the Water Lily ; others the 

 frequent occupants of gardens for example, the Peony, the 

 Lime or Linden Tree, the Beards-foot, the Larkspur, the 

 Monk's-hood, the Columbine, the Pheasant's Eye, and the 

 Trollius or Globe Flower. 



Other countries are not behind our own in producing plants 

 of interest and beauty of the Polyandrous class. To numerous 

 species of Poppy, Anemone, Peony, Ranunculus, &c., which 

 England does not afford, we may add the Caper Bush, the 

 very singularly-formed Side-saddle Flower, (which is a species 

 of Pitcher Plant,) the Arnotta, the extensive and beautiful 

 Cistuses, the Nigella, Sacred Bean, Tulip Tree, Magnolia, 

 Custard Apple, Hepatica, Winter Aconite, Hellebore, and 

 numerous others. 



Order 1. MONOGYNIA. 1 Style. 

 * Petals four ; calyx of two leaves, falling off. 



POPPY, (Papaver.) Capsule of one cell, opening by holes. 



