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Didynamia, confifting of fuch plants of that clafs as have 
naked feeds, in which it differs from the fecond order, or 
that there isno fuch thing in nature as a naked feed, which 
is perfectly true, inafmuch as the internal effential parts of a 
feed muft have one or more integuments, to contain their 
originally almolt fluid fubitance, while it affumes a determinate 
configuration and itruéture, and to afford it fubfequent pro- 
tection. Such integuiments make an_ effential part of the 
feed itfelf, whether it be lodged in a pericarp or not, and 
fuch only are found inthe plants of the order in queftion, — i 
which is ‘nearly a natural one, including the labiate flowers, 
except thofe which, having but two flamens inttead of four, 
are hecelisciiy re erred to the clafs Diandria. This excep- 
tion, however, conititutes a great objection to the Linnean 
fy ftem.i in the minds of thofe who confider it. otherwife than 
fome {pecies’ with four unequal {tam 
Didynamia among its allies, while others have but two. 
Hence authors, according to their having examined more of , 
the one or of the other, differ about itsc 5 
ll the. plants, however, which properly. belong to the 
Didynamia Gymnofpermia, forma natural aflemblage without 
aie e apa ‘Thei ir ae ities are aromatic or bitter, and 
t i them. The aes is in fome 
= se cters. See a. pas Men- 
“GYMNosTAcHYA, facia ypc, naked, and roxy, a 
n. Prod. Nov,. Holl. v. 3. We prefume 
53%. 
to es we termination, becaufe Stachys being an etablithed 
als 
onogynia. 
Eff. Ch. Spatha pete keeled. Spadix ey 
entirely covered with flow Perianth in four deep fe 8 
ments... Stamen eae a its 3 Gera tka 
pendulous feed. Stigma feflile, co-arctated, ss a. 
Seed sid an albumen. Embryo i nvEHe- 
the sag of | e 
tig ftalked, each accompanied by a Sradea, or 
puke, (which. is. keeled, acute, rors longer than the 
partial ftalk, - ade very denithy co dail over with feffile 
d. ioe: Mr. rown. 
GY MNOSTOMUM, fest yuyxo:, naked, and Topas the 
Beardlefs- _Hedw p end a ache 
sch the lid par’ 
Snes toa 
GYM 
fafficiently characterizes the prefent genus. (See J ; 
Moffes.) The capfule moreover is ftalked a he 
her und w - a vertical jointed ri 
in all which characters it fess 
ere nce, though the only one between Br ‘yum and eee 
Swartz therefore uniting this Hedwigia to the genus before 
USy. eftablifhed another; fee Hepwi IGIA. is decifion is 
now reverfed on oe ogi and, we are inclined to think, 
not without reafon. But t hediedwigia of Swartz could not 
be abolifhed, and therefore that of spree art has received a 
new appellation, dnidangium, from. cveszioz, open or fpread- 
ing, and ayysov a veffel or ca pjule, alluding not only to the 
nakednefs of the mouth, but to its being ufually dilated 
See examples of this latter genus in Englj _ we 
t. Se 2216 and 22 
and the cap/ules {malle 
Of the former riba are G. truncatulum, Engl. Bot. t. 19 
a — minute plant, common on banks in the rng 6 
» t1976; G 
abegh the more rare G. Heim 
dens t. @2. 
her 
— contrait to the cedar of Lebanon. G. rmey 
t. 413, a frequent and confpicuous mots, is of this he 
; 2200; G. luteolum, t 22015 
ek curvirofirum, t. 2214, a fingularly miftaken and confuled 
fpecies, even with the greateft ‘muicologitts ; ; and. G. fille 
rumy = ; 
So pretty and curious {pecies which do not esl 
come tindet the above heads are, 
G. ofimundaceum, t. a (G. peunakent? Hedw. Crypt 
Fai REP f+ 2: ofmundaceum 3 «| SOP. 
= % Sct as rae Sice. fafc. 32. 21 oe 
Ehrhart, thinking it d genus of itfelf, gave eee 
Dick/onia pufilla, in his Crypt n. 65. It is one of the-mo® 
uncom! of plants, being found with us in ye 
only, in the road ele te South Tawton church, fouF 
miles from Okehampton, by the Rev. Mr. Newberry 3. ee 
occurs in fome parts of Germany. Its beauty is equal 
its fearcity, the Jems being elegantly pinnate, with torr 
leaves, fern. The flower. rs are ter the 
dioecious. great p ‘ ae ving been ob obferved in ‘ 
kd, which is flat, teanlpaneat and leporable, mee many pa? 
as if c ut, Mohr has. reftored this mo 
phi the name eof Sciehege, | for fo dob ° s | 
