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& >ceciT-j)e,, crater, a cup] A monopetalous Corol- 

 la fo called when the Limbus expands horizon- 

 tally in the form of a falver, dillingniflied, in 

 having a tubus, from the rotatus ; exemplified 

 in the Myofotis fcorp'ioldes, Hottonia, 



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ICOSANDRIA [tUoc-t, vigintl, 8c Av^^, f,ja- 

 ritus, a huibandj the twelfth clafs in the Lin- 

 nsean fyftem, comprehending thofe plants which 

 have hermaphrodite flowers with twenty or 

 more Stamina ; but the number of the Sta?nina 

 is not to be confidered as a pofitive chara£leri- 

 ftic. The claflical charafter, which diftinguifli- 

 es this from the clafs Polyandrla, is, i. a mono- 

 phyllous concave Calyx ; 2. the unguis of the 

 Corolla fixed to the infide of the Calyx ; 3, the 

 Stamina above nineteen in number, and infert- 

 ed in the fides either of the Calyx or Corolla. 

 The orders are five, viz. Monogynia, in 

 •which there are ^genera, viz. CaSlus, Philadcl- 

 phus, Pftditmy Eugenia, Myrtus, Punica, Amyg- 

 dalus, Prunus, Chryfohalanus ; DiAGYNiA, con- 

 raining but one genus, viz. Craf^gus; Trigy- 

 NIA, containing 2 genera, vh. Sorbus, Scfuviwn ; 

 Pentagynia, containing 6 genera, viz. Mefpi- 

 luSf Pyrus, Tctragonia, Mefembryanthemum, Ai- 



zoon^ 



