BRITISH HERBAL. 
SOCERESSISGHOSSSIOG OSHS IGSSSIISSORIONSHSISOSHROOGS 
Geet Ej Aa oingSous WV Uhbees 
Plants whofe flower is compofed of rour vrais, and is fucceeded by @ SINGLE 
REGULAR CAPSULE. 
reft as thofe of the preceding clafs, fince nothing can be a plainer claffical character than 
four petals in a flower, and a fingle capfule fucceeding; yet they are difperfed over feveral 
parts of the works of Linnzus, and all the modern writers, 
The ftudent, in this method of ours, needs only examine the number of petals and the feed- 
veffel, to know to what clafs to ‘refer, or where to look for a plant of this defignation: in 
thofe he will receive no information on either head from fuch an obfervation ; but muft count the 
threads in the plaintain, and thofe in willow-herb, to find where to feek them in his author, and to 
difcover, that one having four belongs to the clafs of tetrandia, and the other having five to that of 
pentandria ; while the poppy, becaufe it has them more numerous, and fixed to the receptacle, is to 
be fought for among the polyandria, in a very diftant part of the book. 
Ts are plants as evidently allied to one another, and as evidently diftinguifhed. from the 
The ftudent will here find all the plants which have four petals, and a fingle regular capfule, 
together: but let him obferve here the diftinétion between the cap/u/e and the pod. As thefe names 
are diftin& in Englifh, fo they are in other languages. The Latin writers conftantly exprefs one by 
capfula, the other by /iliqua; and though both are feed-veflels, they are perfectly diftinguithed, 
This is the more needful to be obferved here, becaufe there is anather great family to be diftin. 
guifhed by having four petals in the flower, and a pod or Jiliqua following. 
The diftinétion will be fhewn when we come to treat of that clafs. What is contained in the pre- 
fent affortment is that family of plants in which the petals are four, and the feed-veflel is a capfule, 
fuch as thofe of the feveral preceding claffes, and not a pod. 
SPREE GRRRIIG IS PESOS H LS HSROLALS PSS SALSSSHSLSH 
Si Emel “Batcerendls 
Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are wild in this country, 
Go. ee (Us L 
Pi OU cP) Pe 
P’ OA «PA iis RVOR 
PYSHE flower is compofed of four large, broad, petals: the cup is a hufk,- compofed of two ova} 
leaves: the feed-veffel is crowned with a top, under which there are feveral {mall Openings 4, 
and the feeds are numerous. 
Linnzus places this among the polyandria monogynia, the filaments in the flower being. numerous, 
and fixed to the receptacle, and the rudiment of the fruit fingle, and with a fingle top, without any 
ftyle. 
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