102 STRUCTURE OF FLOWERS IN CLASS XIX. 



is either naked, without any other inequality than that of being 

 lightly dotted ;...viUose, covered with upright hairs ;...or palea- 

 ceous, covered with palece, chaffs, or straws, that are linear, subu- 

 late, compressed, and erect, and serve to part the florets. 



Characters of the Florets*. 



Calyx— A small perianthium, often quinquepartite, seated on 

 the germen, persisting, and becoming the crown of the seed. 



Corolla— Monopetalous, with a long and very narrow tube. 

 It is seated on the germen; and is either tubulate, with the limb 

 campanulate and quinquetid, and the laciniae spreading and turn- 

 ing back ' ? ...Hgulate, vsith the limb linear, plane, turned out- 

 wards, and the top whole ; ... tridentate, or quinquedentate, or 

 wanting, having no limb, and often no tube. 



Stamina- -The filaments five, capillary very short, inserted in 

 the neck of the corollulae. The anthem five, linear erect ; and by 

 the union of their sides forming a cylinder, that is tubulate, quin- 

 quedentate, and of the length of the limb. 



Pistillum — The germen oblong, placed under the receptacle 

 of the flower; the style filiform, erect, of the length of the sta- 

 mina, and perforating the cylinder of the antherae ; the stigma 

 bipartite, the laciniai revolute, and spreading asunder. 



Pericarpium-— No true one, though in some there is a coria- 

 ceousf crust. 



* The character here given is of a bisexual floret ; but the florets may also be 

 either male, female, or neuter, as the orders show ; it may not be improper, there- 

 fore, to obseive, in general, upon these classic characters, which our author has 

 drawn with such minuce exactness, that they should be understood as collected only 

 from the circumstances that most frequently occur in the class ; and liable to varia- 

 tion, not in particular genera only, but even through the whole orders of the class in 

 some cases. Author. 

 f Leathery. Editor. 



