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GENERA OF CLASS VI. HEXANDRIA. 



CHAP. IX. 



OF THE SIXTH CLASS, HEXANDRIA. 



THIS class consists of such plants as bear bisexual flowers, fur- 

 nished with six stamina. The flowers of this class may be known 

 from those of the fifteenth, by this distinction, that the stamina 

 are of equal length; whereas in those of the fifteenth, which have 

 six stamina likewise, there are four long, and two short. The or- 

 ders of this class are Jive, containing one hundred and twenty-one 

 genera. 



Order 1. Monogynia, one pistillum, contains 93 genera, which 

 fall under the following subdivisions : 1 . Flowers furnished both with 

 calyx and corolla, but without spathes, which contains 24 genera; 

 Bromelia (ananas, or pine-apple) ...VncAium a... Tillandsia... 

 Burmannia. ...Tradescantia (^SpZ*C?erW;or^...STEPHANIA...FRANK- 

 ENIA ('5ea-Ae«i/0...C0SSlGNEA...LoRANTHUS...HlLLIA...ScHRADERA 



...Duroia...Richardia...Tacca...Barbacenia...Berberis (bar- 

 beiry )... Leon ti ce . . . Nandin a . . . Prin os ( winter- berry )... Psathu - 

 ra... Isertia... Canarina... Achras... Capura. 2. Flowers fur- 

 nished with calyx, corolla, and spathes, which contains three gene- 

 ra ; Corypha...Licuala...Mnasium. 3. Flowers spathaceous or 

 glumaceous, which contains twenty genera; Urania....H.?eman- 

 thus (blood flower) ... Leucoium (snoxv -flake) ... Strumaria ... 

 Galanthus (snowdrop).*. Narcissus. ..Pancratium. ..Amaryllis 

 ...Crinum...Cyrtanthus... Eustephia...Agapanthus... Ponte- 

 dera...Bulbocodium...Tulbagia... Allium (garlic, onion, fyc.) 

 ...Curculigo...Aphyllanthes...Massonia...Hypoxis. 4. Flow- 

 . ers naked, which contains thirty -eight genera; Xerophyta...Al- 

 str<emeria...Lanaria...Hemerocallis ( day-lily)... Agave... Ge- 

 thyllis... Aloe... Aletris...Veltheimia... Polyanthes...Con- 



