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Cylinder, and perform their Office together. 
The claffic Charaer will be explained in its 
Fiace *. 
Crass XX. GYNANDRIA.—The 
Term is compounded of two Words, that 
fignify Wife and Hu/band; and alludes to the 
fingular Circumftance of this Clafs, in the 
Flowers of which the Stamina grow upon 
the Piflillum ; fo that the male and female 
Parts are united, and do not fland feparate, 
as in other Hermaphrodite Flowers. 
Crass XXI. MONOEC I 4.—The 
Word here, compounded with the numeri- 
cal Term, fignifies a Houfe or Habitation. 
'To underftandthe Application of this Title, 
we muft know, that the Plants of this Clafs 
are not Hermaphrodite but <Androgynous +, 
the Flowers that have the Stamina wanting 
the Piftillum, and thofe that have the Pif- 
tillum wanting the Stamina. Now the Term 
Monoecia, which fignifies a fingle Houfe, al- 
ludes to this Cireumftance; that in this Clafs 
the male and female Flowers are both found 
on the /ame Plant, whereas in the next they 
have diflinc Habitations. 
Crass XXII. DIOECI A—This 
Term, which fignifies two Houfes, is ap- 
* See Chap. 22. 
+ See Part I. Chap. 21, 
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