Order 1. 
TRIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
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509 Villous viscid, Leaves cordate, Flowers racemose, Stamens longer than the corolla 
.'570 Leaves lanceolate, Peduncles aggregate axillary solitary, Calyxes 3-flowered, Stem ascending 
571 Leaves cordate ovate smooth. Peduncles terminal heaped. Stamens shorter than the corolla 
572 Flowers triandrous monogynous. Leaves very small : lower linear, upper subulate 
573 Leaves oblong-ovate lanceolate or elliptical serrated, Capsules oval 
574 Smooth, Flowers axillary 
575 Hoary, Leaves flower-bearing powdery. Petals and stamens 4 
576 Leaflets stalked ovate-lanceolate entire 
577 Leaflets stalked ovate-lanceolate prickly-toothed 
578 Leaflets sessile angular-spiny 
579 Leaves linear-subulate, Head globose many-flowered. Petals alternate pencil-shaped 
580 Scape slender. Head globose 
581 Culm 2-edged and leaves smooth very narrow, Head subovate. Scales imbricate on each side. Keel of the 
glumes ciliate 
582 Leaves ovate-lanceolate sessile, Stem procumbent, Flowers axillary sessile 
583 Leaves ovate-lanc. nearly sessile acute with the creeping stem smooth, Involucr. cordate doubled together 
584 Flowers uneq. Involucres cord, folded together at base with sheaths ciliated. Leaves lane. sess. Stem decumb. 
585 Leaves lanceolate sessile with the decumbent stem smooth, Involucr. cordate doubled together 
586 Leaves ovate stalked obtuse. Involucres cordate hooded turbinate 
587 Leaves ovate-lanceolate rough. Involucres hooded turbinate, Stem erect 
588 Leaves lanceolate stalked rough above, Sheaths rusty. Stem erect simple 
589 Leaves linear-lanceolate sessile rather hairy, Involucres ovate doubled together, Stem creeping 
590 Villous, Leaves ovate stalked. Involucres half round folded in at the edge. Stem creeping 
591 Leaves ovate-lanceolate sessile ciliated. Involucres cordate folded together. Stem erect 
592 Involucres cord, acumin. folded together, Pedunc. pubesc. Pedicels smooth, Lvs. obi. lane. Sheaths ciliated 
593 Smooth, Stem creeping. Leaves lanceolate. Flower-stalks 2-flowered 
594 Stem solid woody with distant leafy knots. Leaves long ovate acuminate fascicled villous 
595 Stem branched diffuse. Leaves ligulate acuminate, Racemes alternate about 7 placed in a panicle form, 
3 Stamens bearded 3-naked 
596 Leaves lanceolate. Flowers panicled 
597 Stem branching. Branches and branchlets opposite, Flower-stalks many-flowered 
598 Flower-bearing branches dichotomous. Flowers solitary 
599 Leaves subulate prismatic, Spiny at the end 
600 Leaves subulate scattered spreading distinct somewhat recurved, Cal. nearly as long as capsules 
1. Vernal. 
601 Mouth of flower closed by hairs. Segments obtuse. Stigmas dilated. Flowers large early 
602 Segments of flower quite entire obt. Anthers twice as long as the stigmas. Mouth of flower closed by hairs 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
86. Xi/ris. Xu^o?, acute. Its leaf terminates in a sharp point. Under this name a plant is described by 
Pliny, which resembles an iris. Pretty little rush-like plants with yellow flowers ; uncommon in collections, 
but easily cultivated, though rarely flowering. 
87. Callisia. From x.a,Xoi, pretty ; a name aptly given to this plant, which is easily known by its shining 
leaves edged with purple. 
88. Commelina. So named by Plumier, in honor of the brothers, John and Caspar Commelin, botanists 
and Dutch merchants. Some of the species, such as C. ccelestis and tuberosa, are very showy herbaceous 
plants ; others are mere weeds. They are all easily cultivated in wet places in the stove or greenhouse, and 
propagated by the rooting joints of their stem or by division of the roots, or by cuttings. 
89. Aneilema. From avuXiu, to evolve, the flowers being evolved, as it were, from the spatha. A genus 
resembling Commelina, from which it is chiefly distinguished by not having its flowers enclosed in a spatha. 
90. Cartonema. From x,a.^T05, shorn, and v/nj-ot,, a filament, in reference to the stamens. A plant resembling 
Commelina. 
91. Ortegia. In honor of Casimir Gomez de Ortega, a Spanish botanist, and professor of botany at 
Madrid. An insignificant herbaceous plant. 
92. Polycnemum. IloXof, many, knee, on account of the number of joints Of the stem. A decumbent 
annual plant of no beauty. 
98. Crocus. A name given by Theophrastus. The story of the youth Crocus being turned into this flower, 
may be read in Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is an ornamental genus of great value in the flower-garden, on 
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