Cl. 8.] LYSIMACHIJE. 95 



keep pace with nature. It seems proper nevertheless 

 that these three last Orders should he removed to some 

 of the following Classes. 



CLASS 8. DICOTYLEDONES. COROLLA MONOPE- 

 TALOUS, HYPOGYNOUS. 



" Calyx of one leaf. Corolla regular or irregular, 

 bearing the Stamens, which are definite, and gene- 

 rally alternate with its segments when of equal 

 number. Germen superior, in general simple, with 

 one Style ; but in some Apocinei, Ord. 47, the 

 Germen is double, without any Style. Stigma sim- 

 ple or divided. Seeds either naked, or more fre- 

 quently in a Pericarp, either pulpy or capsular, of 

 \ or many cells." 



A great and important Class ; whose 15 Orders 

 follow one another in a tolerably natural series. Some 

 are generally furnished with Albumen, others not ; 

 but this difference bears no analogy to the other cha- 

 racters of affinity, or of distinction, between the Or- 

 ders. 



Ord. 34. LYSIMACHI^E. " Calyx divided. Corolla 

 mostly regular, five-cleft, bearing as many Stamens 

 opposite to the lobes. Style 1. Stigma rarely cloven. 

 Fruit of 1 cell, with many Seeds, often capsular, with 

 a central unconnected Receptacle. Stem herbaceous. 

 Leaves opposite, or alternate." 



Some have a Stem, as Anagallis, fig. 169, Lyxi- 

 machia, Hottonia, Limosclla, &c. ; others radical 



