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Plants whofe flower is compofed of a cup and filaments, without any petals. 
HIS is a very large clafs ; ‘and there is not in the whole compafs of the fcience one better 
; marked, or more obvioufly diftinguithed, to the unprejudiced eye; the want of petals, the 
gaudy part of a flower, rendering thefe altogether unlike all the others. 
Ray has placed them together under the term apetalous , and others, who have followed Natute, 
have feared to feparate them. But, in the modern fyftem of Linnzus, they are, like the reft of Na- 
ture’s alliances, {catered over all his works, the docks being placed among his ¢riandria, and the atri- 
plex among the polygamia monacia at the other end of his work. Thefe are the errors againft which 
I declare, refting the objeGtion upon Nature; againft whom there is no appeal. 
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Mie of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies~ are naturally wild in this country. 
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APONOGETON. 
PTHE flowers are of two kinds, male and female, on the fame plant. The male flower confifts 
of a fingle filament, terminated by an oval button, not having fo much asacup. The female 
flower has:a cup, formed of one leaf, and dented in two places at the edge; in which are placed fe- 
veral rudiments of feeds, crowned with fimple ftyles; and both kinds are fituated in the bofoms of 
the leaves. 
Linnzus places this among the monecia monandria, and gives it the name Zannichellia, 
Horned Aponogeton. The flowers are fmall, and greenifh; and 
Aponogeton cornutum. they ftand in the bofoms of the leaves over the 
ereateft part of the plant, 
It is common in waters, and flowers in July- 
Pantedera calls it Aponogeton aquaticum gra- 
minifolium flamivibus fingularibus. 
‘The root is fibrous, and white. 
The ftalk is round, green, weak, and very 
much branched. 
The leaves are oblong; narrow, numerous, 
and of a frefh green. 
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