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BRITISH HERBAL 
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C. LovA. Ss. 8 vit 
Plants whofe flower is compofed of tTurne rEvansy and is followed by a 
SINGLE CAPSULE. 
Ts clafs has all the advantages of the laft, in being clearly, familiarly, and’ obvioufly 
diftinguifhed: like that alfo it comprehends only a few plants; and there is the fame 
reafon for keeping them feparate from all others, the rendering the path to the fcience eafy 
and plain. ’ t I 
Linneus, however, feparates them into very diftant parts of his works, placing the frogdit among 
his dioecia enneandria, and the ftratiotes among the polyandria hexagynia. 
Mr. Ray joins the plants of this, as we before obferved, with thofe of the laft clafs; but he is 
much more excufable than Linnzus in feparating them fo widely one from another. ~ 
SacKeuko Td) sbia$ I. 
Natives of BRigTain. 
‘Thofe of which one or more {pecies a8 native of this country. 
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Ganbieehe ete. | 
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HYDROCHARIS: 
PPHE flower is cotnpofed of three roundifh petals, which fpread evenly open: the cup is cori- 
pofed of three fmall, oval leaves: the feed-veffel is fkinny, ' toundifh, and divided into 
fix cells. 
Linnzus places this among his divecia enneandria ; fome plants of it having only male; and the other 
only female flowers; and the ftamina in the male flowers being nine. 
The difference in the male and female plants of this genus is this, that in the male three flowers 
grow together, and there is a general hufk for them, befide the particular cup for each; and in the 
female the flowers ftand fingle, having only their proper three-leaved cup, and are fucceeded by 
acapfule, which thofe of the male plants are not. This is all the obvious difference; but, when 
clofer examined, the female flowers are found to have no threads. 
Of this plant there is only one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain. 
7 Common 
