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Planis whofe flower is compofed of six vetars, and their feeds contained in 
@ SINGLE CAPSULE, 
the number of petals, that they are feparated by Nature from all others ; and the ftudent will 
find great familiarity and eafe in the diftin@tion. They are obvioufly known by this number 
of their petals ; and he is not fent to look for them among a multiplicity of others, with which fome 
have confounded them; but will find them here alone, and in their place, allotted plainly by Nature, 
after thofe which have the fame kind of feed-veffel, and one petal lefs in the fower. 
Plainly as thefe genera are charatterifed by Nature, and evidently as fhe ditates where they fhould 
ftand, Linnzus has difperfed them in his works, and placed them among thofe to which they are 
not in the leaft allied. 
We have but two genera of this clafs natives of Britain, and thefe he has feparated from one ano- 
ther by five intermediate claffes, placing the /alicaria among his dodecandria, and the portula among 
his bexandria. 
Sie plants which compofe this clafs are very few; yet they are fo perfectly charatterifed by- 
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She Rede ES oT. 
Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are found naturally wild in this country. 
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SPIKED WILLOWHERB. 
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TBE flower confifts of fix petals regularly difpofed : the feed-veffel is fingle, oblong, and pointed, 
and the feeds are numerous and fmall: the cup is formed of a fingle piece: it is hollow and 
ftriated, and is divided into ten fegments at the edge, which are alternately longer and fhorter. 
Linnzus places this among the dodecandria monogynia ; the threads in the centre of the flower being 
twelve, and the ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. He takes away its received name falica- 
ria, and calls it tbrum. 
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