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Anthers four to seven in each floret, scales 
of the catkin becoming fleshy ......... JUNIPERUS, V. 3. p. 1293. 
Anthers eight to ten, peltate. Fruit sur- 
rounded with a fleshy disk ............ Taxus, v. 3. p. 1294. 
SUB-CLASS II. 
MONOCOTYLEDONES, OR ENDOGENEOUS 
PLANTS. : 
1. FLORID. 
Floral envelopes whorled. 
ORDER LXXXV. HYDROCHARIDEA.—De Canp. 
Flowers dicecious, enclosed in a spatha of three pieces. Male 
flowers, one or more, sessile or pedunculated. Female flowers single, 
sessile. Perianth six-partite, the outer ones herbaceous, the inner 
petaloid. Stamens definite or indefinite. Ovary single, free, inferior, 
one or many celled. Stigmas three to six. Fruit dry, or succulent, 
indehiscent, one or many celled. Seeds indefinite, often parietal, 
without albumen. Hmbryo undivided.—Aquatic herbaceous plants. 
Leaves with parallel veins, sometimes spiny. Flowers spathaceous. 
GENERA. 
The outer perianth divided to the base ... Hynnrocuanis, v. 3. p. 1292. 
The outer perianth tubular...........-ee+.. STRATIOTES, V. 2. p. 776. 
ORDER LXXXVI. ORCHIDEA.—Jvtss. 
Pevianth superior, ringent. Sepals three, usually coloured, of 
which the odd one is uppermost, in consequence of a twisting of the 
ovary. Petals three, or two, sometimes absent, mostly coloured, two 
of which are uppermost, and one called the dip undermost, which is 
frequently lobed, of a different form from the others, and often 
spurred at the base. Stamens three, united in a central column, the 
two lateral ones abortive, the central perfect, or the central abortive, 
and the two lateral ones perfect. Anthers two, four, or eight celled, 
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