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simulated receptacle of which there are seven, viz. 

 Secale, Triticum, Hordeum, lloitbollia, Elymus, 

 Loliutn, and Cynosurus. 



ORDER III. TRIG VNIA, comprehending such plants 

 as have three styles. This order contains ten genera, 

 distinguished into, 1. Those with flowers below*', of 

 which there are nine, viz. Holosteum, Polycarpon, 

 Lechea, Montia, Mollugo, Minuartia, Queria, Koe- 

 nigia and Triplaris. 2. Contains one genus, Proser- 

 pinaca, with flowers above. 



CHAP. VII. 



OF THE FOURTH CLASS TETRANDRIA. 



THIS Class consists of such plants as bear herma- 

 phrodite flowers, furnished \\ii\\four stamina. The 

 flowers of this class may be known from those of 

 the fourteenth by this distinction, that the stamina 

 are of equal lengths ; whereas in those of the four- 

 teenth, which have four stamina likewise, there are 

 two long and two sfwrt : the orders of this class are 

 three, viz. 



ORDER I. MONOGYXTA, comprehending such 

 plants as have but one style. This order contains 

 seventy-one genera, distinguished into 1 . Those with 

 inonopetalous, rnonospermous, flowers, placed below ; 

 of which there are two, viz. Protea, and Globularia. 

 2. Those with monopetalous, monospermous flowers, 

 placed above, called in natural orders Aggregate ; of 

 which there are five, viz. Cephalanthus, Dipsacus, 

 Scabiosa, Knautia, and Allionia. 3. Those with mo- 

 nopetalous flowers placed below a single fruit; of 

 which there are thirteen, viz. Aquartia, Callicarpa, 

 Aegiphila, Banksia, Scoparia, Centunculus, Plantago, 

 Polypremum, Buddleja, Exacum, Penaca, Wither- 



* That is, below the gcnnen. 



