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D'ici)>namia of Linnaeus : it comprehends thofc 

 plants, of that clafs, which have naked feeds. 

 The feeds are conftantiy four in numbei-, except 

 in one genus, viz. Phryma, which is monofpermus. 

 Thefe are the Labicti of Tournefort, and Ver- 

 tkUlateE of Ray. 



GYNANDRIA [ruv«, mnUer, a woman, & 

 An>z, "vir, a man] The twentietli clafs in the 

 Linnasan fyftem ; it confifts of thofe hermaphro- 

 dite plants \})xo{& Jlamina grow either upon the 

 Stylus, or on an elongated Recepiaculum, refcm- 

 bling a Stylus, and fupporting both PijUllum and 

 Stamina. The firft order, viz. Diandria, of 

 this clafs, is a natural one, the genera differino- 

 only in the Ne£lar'ium. The ftrudlure of the 

 parts of fructification of this order is very fin- 

 gular : the Germsn is always contortum ; the Pe- 

 tala are five, of which the two interior general- 

 ly approach, fo as to form a Galea, whofe infe- 

 rior labium becomes NcSlarium, which alfo 

 fupplies the place of a Pijiilium and fixch Peta- 

 lum ; the Stylus adheres to the inferior margin 

 of the Ne£iarium, fo that it is hairdly difi:in- 

 guifhable; the Filarnenta are invariably two, 

 {hort, fupporting two Jnthe7'ce, which grow 

 narrow downward, are naked, and divifible 

 like the pulp of the Citrus : thefe are included 

 In two cellula which are open below, and adhere 



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