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could hardly be referred to the Class Syngenesis* ; 

 particularly Xanthium and Nephelium, whose fer- 

 tile flowers have no resemblance to that Class. 

 Amaranthus, an extensive dung-hill genus in warm 

 countries, analogous to our Chenopodium, follows 

 next. Leea is the same with Aquilicia, and belongs 

 to Pentandria Monogynia, the former name being 

 retained for the sake of the highly meritorious bo- 

 tanist and cultivator whom it commemorates. The 

 Gourd tribe, Cucurbita, Cucumis, Bryonia, Engl. 

 Bot. t. 439, might be brought hither from the 

 abolished Order Syngenesia, unless it should be 

 thought better to consider them as polyadelphous, 

 to which I am most inclined. 



6. Hexandria. Zizania,Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 7. 1. 13 ; 

 and Pharus, Browne s Jamaica, t. 38, both grasses, 

 compose this Order, to which Schreber has added 

 Epibaterium and Pometia of Forster, as well as 

 the splendid Guettarda, Hort. Mai. v. 4. t. 48. 

 The latter varies from six to nine in the parts of the 

 flower, and constitutes the Order Heptandria in 

 Linna3USj according to his usual principle, of placing 

 such irregular plants, as much as possible, in small 

 Classes or Orders, that they might be the more 

 easily found. 



7. Polyandria. Stamens more than seven. Cerato- 



* Willdcnow however has removed Iva and Parihenittm thither, ac- 

 cording to the original ideas of Linnaeus, in Gen. PI. cd. 1. 



