TITLES OF THE CLASSES. 



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Class 20. Gynandria. — The term is compounded of two words, 

 that signify wife and husband; and alludes to the singular cir- 

 cumstance of this class, in the flowers of which the stamina grow 

 out of the pistillum. 



Class 21. Moncecia.— The word here, compounded with the 

 numerical term, signifies a house or habitation. To understand 

 the application of this title, we must know, that the plants of 

 this class are not bisexual, but androgynous*, the flowers that 

 have the stamina wanting the pistillum, and those that have the 

 pistillum wanting the stamina. Now the term monaicia, which 

 signifies a single house, alludes to this circumstance, that in this 

 class the male and female flowers are both found on the same 

 plant, whereas in the next they have distinct habitations. 



Class 22. Diozcia. — This term, which signifies two houses, is 

 applied to this class (the plants of which are male and female), 

 to express the circumstance of the male flowers being on one 

 plant, and the female on another; the contrary of which is the 

 case of the androgynous class Monxcia last explained. 



Class 23. Polygamia. — The term signifies plurality of mar- 

 riages. This class produces, either upon the same or different 

 plants, bisexual flowers, and also flowers of one sex only, be it 

 male or female. 



Class 24. CiiYPTOGAMiAf. — The term signifies concealment of 

 marriages; this class consisting of such plants as either bear their 

 flowers concealed within the fruit or have them so small, as to 

 be imperceptible 



* See Part I. Chap, XXI. 



•f* Perhaps the Greek words should have been expressed; but the editor was fear- 

 ful of adding them, as Mr. Lee has knowingly omitted them. These may, however, 

 be seen in Doctor Thornton's Grammar of Botany. 



X The Ficus, whose flowers are within the fruit, used to be put in this cl»3s ; but 

 h since removed to the twenty-third class, Polygamia. 



