22 AN INTRODUCTION 



STAMINEOUS Nectaria, such as attend the Stami- 

 na ; and these are either upon the anthera?, as in 

 Adenanthera; or upon the filaments, as in Lauras, 

 Dictamnus, Zygophyllum, Commelina, Mirabilis, 

 Plumbago, Campanula, and Roella. 



PISTILLACKOUS Nectaria, such as accompany the 

 Pistillurn : These are upon the Germen, as in Hya- 

 cinthus, Iris, Butomus, Cheiranthus, Hesporis, c. 



RECEP FACULACEOUS Nectaria, such as join to the 

 Receptacle, as in Lathraea, Helxine, Collinsonia, Se- 

 .dum, Cotyledon, Sempervivum, &c. Mercurialis, 

 Kiggelaria, Clutia, Phyllanthus, Melianthus and Di- 

 osma. 



CHAP. XIII. 



OF THE DIFFERENT STRUCTURES OF THE STAMINA. 



THE Stamina consisting each of a filament and an 

 Anthera, (see Chap. 4.) we shall speak first of the va- 

 riations of the filaments. 



i As the terms respecting the number of the stamina 

 will be explained in the Chapters that treat of the 

 Sexual System, we shall omit here what concerns the 

 numbers of the filaments, themselves, to avoid repeti- 

 tion ; but they are sometimes found to have Lacimac, 

 segments ; and these are either two, as in Salvia ; 

 three, as in Fumaria ; or nine, as in the class Dia- 

 delphia. 



The Figure of the Filaments is either capillary, 

 like hairs, as in Plantago ; plane, flat, as in Orni- 

 thogalum ; cuneiform, wedge-shaped, as in Thalic- 

 trum ; spiral, skrew- shaped, as in Hirtella ; subulate, 

 awl-shaped, as in Tuiipa; emarginfrte, nicked or 

 notched, as in Porrum ; reflex, bent back, as in Glo- 



