314 TETRANDRIA. 



is yuadriftdus*, four-cleft, and T. muscosa excludes, 

 or lays aside, one fourth of the fructification. 



CLASS 4. Tetrandria. Stamens 4. Orders 3. 



Monogynia. A very numerous and various Order, 

 of which the Proteace< make a conspicuous part, 

 consisting of Protect, Banksia, Lambert ia* Em- 

 bothrium, c. See Botany of New Holland, t. 7 

 10. Scabiosa, Engl. Eot. t. 659 ; Plant ago, 

 t. 1558, 1559, remarkable for its capsula circum- 

 scissa, a membranous capsule, separating by a com- 

 plete circular fissure into two parts, as in the next 

 genus, Centunculus, t. 531; Rubia, t. 851, and 

 others of its natural order, of whose stipulation we 

 have spoken,/;. 167, are found here, and the curious 

 Epimcdium, . 438. 



2. Digynia. Buffonia, t. 1313. 



Cuscuta, placed here by Linnaeus, is best removed 

 to the next class. 



3. Tetragynia. Ilex, t. 496, a genus sometimes 

 furnished with a few barren flowers, and therefore 

 removed by Hudson to the twenty-third Class, of 

 which this measure serves only to show the disad- 

 vantage ; Potamogeton, t. 1 68, 376, and Ruppia, 

 t. 1 36, are examples of this Order. They all have 



sessile stigmas. 



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* See Linn. Sp. PL 186, and Curt. Lond.fasc. 6. t. 31. 



