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Plants with the flower compofed of numnrous Pitas, and the feeds contained 
‘i @ SINGLE CAPSULE. 
HIS is a clafs, which, like the former, comprehends but a few plants; but they ate fo 
/ perfe€tly and obvioufly feparated by Nature from all others, that whofoever follows het 
_fteps muft thus arrange them diftinétly. 
As we have hitherto alfo. purfued her traces through the feveral difpofitions of plants, which, 
agreeing in the mark of a fingle feed-veffel, have from one to fix petals in each flower, here is the 
place where the ftudent will expeét to find thofe genera which, with the firft grand charateriftick 
of a fingle capfule, have more than fix petals. 
So plain, fo eafy, and fo familiar, is the fcience of botany, when not encumbered with intricate 
words, and ufelefs diftinctions. 
We have, in this, as in the former clafs, but two genera, any fpecies of which “are natives of 
Britain. Yet thefe two Linnzus has feparated by feveral claffes, puting the Aypopitys among his 
decandria, and the nymphea among the polyandria, though both agree in thefe obvious particulars, 
His method is unhappy that thus reduces him to feparate plants the moft palpably allied, and join 
them to the moft unlike. 
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Thofe of which one or more fpecies are natives of this country: as 
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HYPOPITYS. 
THE flower is corpofed of numerous petals, which are ferrated at their ends: the feed-veffel. is 
oval, and marked with five ridges; and the feeds are numerous and light: there is no cup. 
Some have called the outer petals of the flower by that name; but they err; thefe properly con- 
ftitute a part of the flower, and contain in their bafes, which are hollowed for that purpofe, itg 
honeyed juice. : ’ 
Linnzus places this among the decandria monogynia , the threads in the} flower being ten, and the 
ftyle from the rudiment of the fruit fingle. 
This author takes away its received name Aypopitys, and calls ic monotropa. 
The reader will perceive, in the defeription of the farft plant of this getius, 4 reafon for not afcer- 
taining the number of petals in the plants of this, as in thofe of the preceding clafs: nattire does not 
obferve that particular here fo ftri€tly : when the petals in flowers.are in a large number they are ge. 
nerally uncertain. In this fpecies of Lypopitys the Aower which terminates the ftalls ufually has ten pe- 
tals, and the others, when there are more, have only eight. 
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