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TRIANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
223. ERIOCAUa.ON. W. Pipewort. 
1295 septangulare E. B. 
1296 australe R B. 
224. MON'TIA. '.W. 
1297 fontana W. 
1298 rivularis Gmel. 
225. MOLLU'GO. W. 
1299 verticillata W. 
1300 triphylla Lk. 
226. MINUAR'TIA. 
1301 dichotoma W. 
1302 campestris W. 
1303 montana W. 
227. QUE'RIA. W. 
1304 hispanica 
228. KCENI'GIA. W. 
1305 islandica W. 
jointed 
australasian 
Chickweed. 
water 
brook 
MOLLUGO. 
whoried 
three-leaved 
W. MlNUARTIA. 
forked 
field 
mountain 
QUERIA. 
Spanish 
KCENIGIA. 
Iceland 
EriocaulecB. Sp. 2 — 34. 
= ^ ~~ is W Scotland boge, 
^lAJcu 1| jn W N.HoU. 1820. 
Po7 tulacece. Sp. 2. 
5 ap.my W Britain springs. S aq 
■ i jn.jl W Labrador 1823. D m.s 
Caryophyllece. Sp. 3—7. 
ijn.au Ap Virginia 1748. 
i jl Ap Brazil 1821. 
Caryopliyllece. Sp. 3. 
|jn.jl Ap Spain 1771. S co 
lin jn.jl Ap Spain 1806. S co 
4 jn.jl Ap Spain 1806. S co 
Caryophyllece. Sp. 1 — 2. 
lin my.s Ap Spain 
Polygonecs. Sp. 1. 
g ap Ap Iceland 1773. 
^ A cu 
^ O w 
^ O w 
O w 
rm w 
o w 
o w 
o w 
o w 
D m.s 
D m.s 
S CO 
D m.s 
1800. S CO 
S CO 
Class HI. 
Eng. bot. 773 
Eng. bot. 1206 
Ehret. pict. t.6 
Ac.st.l758.t.l.f.2 
Ac.st.l758.t.l.f.3 
Lo9f.it.rar.t.l.f.4 
Quer.fl.6.t.l5.f.2 
Lam. ill. t. 51 
History, Use, Propagation, Culture, 
223. Eriocaiilon. Ej^ov, wool, and y,KuXo?, a steni ; in allusion to the velvety stem of some species. Only one 
kind, E. septangulare, has been found in Britain. The species are all very curious, and deserving of more at- 
tention than they have received at the hands of cultivators. 
224. Montia. In honor of Joseph de Monti, professor of botany and natural history at Bologna in the begin, 
ning of the 18th century. The plants are small inconspicuous weeds. 
225. Mollugo. The Roman name of what is supposed to be our Galium mollugo, which the present plant 
resembles in its whoried leaves and inconspicuous appearance. 
Class IV. —TETRANDRIA. 4 Stamens. ^ 
This class is neither so lafge nor so important as the last. It is composed chiefly of ornamental or curiouj 
plants, mostly shrubs, of which the Proteaceag hold the first rank. Among the few plants used in the arts 
which it contains, may be mentioned the madder (Rubia), Fuller's thistle (Uipsacus), the holly "(Ilex), one of 
the best evergreen hedge plants ; and some foreign timbers and dyes, as the sandal-wood and chayroot. 
The ProteaceaB, of which the first section of the class partly consists, are natives chiefly of the Cape of Good 
Hope and New South Wales ; and there is this singular circumstance connected with their geographical dis- 
tribution, that those two continents do not possess any one genus in common ; a singular fact, and of th^ more 
difficult solution, as the genera of the order are strictly natural. They have been described by Mr. Brown, in a 
long and learned memoir, in the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. x., where much information respect- 
ing them may be found. It has been impossible to state the natural height or color of flower of many of the 
New Holland kinds, as Mr. Brown says nothing upon these two points ; and he is the only author who has seen 
the plants in their native country, where alone many of them have flowered. In the conservatory they are 
mostly shrubs of from four to seven feet in height. • 
The principal part of the fourth section of Monogynia consists of the SteUatee or Crossworts, which are com- 
mon weeds all over Europe. 
Many of the genera in the sixth section, such as Ixora, Pavetta, Catesbaa, are beautiful ornaments of the 
conservatory. The wood of Curtisia in the seventh section furnishes the Caffres with materials for the shafts 
of their hassagays. 
With the exception of ProteacejE, the class is made up of a miscellaneous assemblage of species, with few 
characters in common. The genera have not been combined in any other than a purely artificial manner, and 
among them are to be found plants belonging to almost all the natural orders of Dicotyledonous plants of the 
older French botanists. Pothos, Potamogeton, and Ruppia are among the rare instances of a quaternary divi- 
sion of the flower in Monocotyledonous plants. 
Order 1. MONOGYNIA. ^ 4 Stamens. 1 Style. i 
1. Flowers incomplete, {no corolla), inferior. 
229, Petrophila. Cal. 4-cleft, all deciduous. Style persistent at base. Stigma spindle-shaped, narrowed at 
end. Scales beneath the ovary none. Cone ovate. Nut lenticular, comosc at one end. 
