DIFFERENT KINDS OF STAMINA. 



are upon the germen, as in Hyacinthvs, Iris, Butomus, Chier- 



ANTHUS, HESPERIS, &C. 



Receptaculaceous nectaria, such as join to the receptacle, as 

 in Lathr;ea, Helxine, Collinsonia, Sedum, Cotyledon, Sem- 

 pervivum, &c. Mercurialis, Kiggellaria, Clutia, Phyllan^ 

 thus, Melianthus, and Diosma. 



CHAP. XIII. 



OF THE DIFFERENT STRUCTURES OF THE STAMINA. 



THE stamina consisting each of a filament and an anthera, 

 (se e Chap. IV.), we shall speak first of the variations of the fila- 

 ments. 



As the terms respecting the Number of the stamina will be 

 explained in the chapters that treat of the sexual system, we shall 

 omit here what concerns the number of the filaments themselves, 

 to avoid repetition j but they are sometimes found to have laci- 

 niw, segments; and these are either two, as in Salvia three, as 

 inFuMARiA;...ormwe, as in the class Diadelphia*. 



The Figure of the filaments is either capillary, like hairs, as 

 in Plantago ;.. .plane, flat, as in Ornithogalum ^..cuneiform, 

 wedge-shaped, as in Thalictrum spiral, screw-shaped, as in 

 Hirtella ; ... subulate, awl-shaped, as in Tulipa; ... emarginate, 

 nicked, or notched, as in Porrum reflex, bent bach, as in Glo- 

 RiosA;...or hirsute, hairy, as in Tradescantia, and Anthericum. 



The Proportion of the filaments is either unequal, as in 

 Daphne, Lychnis, and Saxifraga irregular, as in Lonicera, 

 and the class Didynamia-f \...very long, as in Trichostema, Plan- 

 tago, and Hirtella;. ..or very short, as in Triglochin. 



See Part II. Chap. XX. f See Part II. Chap. XVII. 



