SYNOPTICAL TABLE 



OF 



THE CLASSES, ORDERS, AND GENERA OF 



BRITISH PLANTS, 



ARRANGED 1 



ACCORDING TO THE LINN-^IAN METHOD, 



"WITH REFERENCES TO THE PAGE WHERE THE SPECIES ARE DESCRIBED 



IN THE BODY OF THE WORK. 



Class I. MONANDEIA.^ 1 stamen 



1. Salicornia. 



2. 



lobed. 

 plants. 



3. 



4. 



Ord. I. MoNOGTNiA.2 1 style. 



* Leaves without stipules. 



Perianth single, inferior, tumid, fleshy, obscurely 

 Style short, terminal ; stigmas 2 — 3-fid, — Sea-side 

 p. 360. 



HiPPURis. Perianth single, superior, forming a very indistinct 

 rim to the germen. Style and stigma simple. —Eresh- water 

 erect plants, p. 148. 



ZosTERA. Perianth 0. Stamens and pistils inserted alternately 

 in two opposite rows upon one side of a thin flat spadix. Style 

 Lifid. — Marine plants with long leaves, p. 486. 



Centrakthus. Perianth double. Calyx a thickened margin at 

 the top of the germen, at length unfolding into a pappus. Co- 

 rolla spurred at the base. — Terrestrial plants, p. 200, 



From ^oro^, one, and ay?,^, here applied to the stamen. The other classes, as 

 lar as Icosandna, meaning iiO stamens, are likewise derived from the Greek nume- 

 2 V- ^^y^^^^'^^^ in the same way is from croXv$, many, 



. ^ When 



stigmas 



2 V -^^'^^^"^'^^^ ^^ *^"e same way is from croXv$, many. 

 1^ rom //.ovo?, one, and yvvn, here made appUcable to the pistil or style, 

 tue styles are so short as uot to be visible, the stigmas are reckoned. 



