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their sides, as Raphanus, t. 856 ; Chdranthus, 

 t. 462; Hesperis, t. 731 ; Brassica, t. 637, &c. 

 Others have a spreading or gaping calyx, as Car- 

 damine, t. 1000; Sisymbrium, t. 855; and espe- 

 cially Sinapis, t. 969 and t. 1677. 



Cleome is a very irregular genus, allied in habit, 

 and even in the number of stamens of several 

 species, to the Polyandria Monogynia. Its fruit, 

 moreover, is a capsule of one cell, not the real two- 

 celled pod of this Order. Most of its species are 

 foetid and very poisonous, whereas scarcely any plants 

 properly belonging to this Class are remarkably 

 noxious, for I have great doubts concerning the dis- 

 ease called Raphania, attributed by Linnasus to the 

 seeds of Raphanus Raphanistrum. 



The Cruciform plants are vulgarly called antiscor- 

 butic, and supposed to be of an alkalescent nature. 

 Their essential oil, which is generally obtainable in 

 very small quantities by distillation, smells like vola- 

 tile alkali, and is of a very acrid quality. Hence the 

 foetid scent of water in which cabbages, or other 

 plants of this tribe, have been boiled. 



CLASS 16. Monadelphia. Stamens united by their 

 filaments into one tube. Orders 8, distinguished 

 by the number of their stamens. 



1 . Triandria is exemplified by Sisyrinchium, Ic. Pict. 

 t. 9, and Ferraria, Curt. Mag. t. 144, 532, both 

 erroneously placed by Linna3us in Gynandna. Also 



