369 MONQEC1A. 



phyllum, Eitgl. Bot. t. 947, 679 ; Myriophyllum, 

 t. 83, 218 ; and the handsome Sagittaria^ t. 84, 

 stand here at present, but the accessory parts in 

 their two kinds of flowers are alike. Begonia, 

 Kvot. Bot. t. 101, has the number of its petals, 

 though various in several species, always sufficiently 

 different in the barren and fertile flowers, to fix it 

 here. The most indubitable plants of this Order 

 are amentaceous, Qucrcus, Engl. Bot. t. 13.42 ; 

 Fagus, t. 886 ; Cory Ins* t. 723 ; Carpimts, Ju- 

 glans, Platanus, Sec. Arum, t. 1298, Calla and 

 Ambrosinia, all brought hither from the twentieth 

 Class, seem to me perfectly intelligible as simple 

 monoecious flowers, the barren one, with many 

 stamens, being superior, or interior, with respect to 

 the fertile, like the generality of monoecious, as 

 well as all compound flowers, and not inferior, or, 

 as in every simple one, exterior. 



8. Monadelphia. The Fir, Pinus, so magnificently 

 illustrated by Mr. Lambert, is very distinct in its two 

 kinds of flowers. Each barren one consists of a 

 naked tuft of monadelphous stamens, accompanied 

 only by a few bracteas at the base. The fertile ones 

 are catkins, with similar bracteas, each scale bearing 

 on its upper side a pair of winged seeds, and on its 

 under a leaf-like style and acute stigma ; as Jussieu 

 first, rightly I believe, suggested, though some bota- 

 nists have understood these parts otherwise. Aca- 



