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ornamented, and rendered much more ufeful, by 

 a plate, on which are engraven different views of 

 the flower, and a figure of the leaf of each 

 fpecies. 



The PaJJion Flomer belongs to the gynandrous 

 plants with five ftamina, and the number of 

 fpecies, as they now (land in the fyftem, is aug- 

 mented to 26, without mentioning two others, de- 

 fcribed and figured as new, by M. Jacquin^ who 

 brought them from Carthagena, All the Fajfion 

 Flowers yet known are natives of the warmer parts 

 of America only, and not found in any other parts 

 of the globe. 



9. De x^lNandria. E. Z.Ttirfen, 1745. 



The hiftory of a Angular Siberian plant, which, 

 during the time of flowering, was found not to 

 open the calix ; and was called Anandria by pro- 

 feflbr Siegejbeck^ of Peterjhurgh^ who had fancied 

 that it was deftitute of ftamina^ and having de- 

 clared himfeif a flirenuous oppofer of the fexual 

 fyRem, thought, by the inftance of this plant, to 

 have overturned the whole do6lrine of the fexes of 

 plants ; having v/ritten a treatife, in which he had 

 ailerted, that the fiamina did not conftitute the 

 ejjential parts of the plant, and that the feed would 

 become fertile without the influence of the Folleii 

 Antherarwn, This plant is fyngenefwiis^ and of thac 

 genus which we name Coltsfoot, It fl:ands in the 

 Syfl:em under the name of ujfilago ( Anandria) 

 fcapo unifioro^ fuhfqiiamofo ere^o^ foltis lyrata-ovatis % 

 jind fubfequent obfervations proved , that in a 



warmer 



