THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS vir. 
Plants nuhofe flower is compofed of three petals, and is followed by a 
SINGLE CAPSULE, 
THIS clafs has all the advantages of the laft, in being clearly, familiarly, and obviouOy 
diftinguiflied : like that alfo it comprehends only a few plants ; and there is the fame 
reafon for keeping them feparate from all others, the rendering the path to the fcience eafy 
and plain. . r i 
Linnajus, however, feparates them into very diftant parts of his works, placing the/w^fo/ atpong 
his fciae^BM"''™, and the among the ?s;jW™te^7»<a. „ , ^ " i. u - 
Mr. Ray joins the plants of this, as we before obfervcd, with thofe of the laft clafs j but he is 
much more excufable than Unnaus in feparating them fo widely one from another. 
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SERIES 
I. 
Natives of Britain. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are native of this country. 
GENUS I. 
F R O G B I T. 
li r D R 0 C H A R 1 S. 
THF. flower is compofed of three roundilh petals, which fpread evenly open : the cup is com- 
pofed of three fmall, oval leaves : the feed-velTel is fkinny, roundifh, and divided into 
fix cells. 
Linnxus places this among his iioccia ennmndria ; fome plants of it having only male, and the other 
only female flowers ; and the flamina in the male flowers being nine. 
The difterence in the male and female plants of this genus is this, that in the male three flowers 
grow together, and there is a general hufic for them, bcfide the particuLir cup for each and in the 
female the flowers ftand Angle, having only their proper three-leaved cup, and are fucceeded by 
a capfule, which thofe of the male plants are not. This is all the obvious difference ; but, when 
clofer examined, the 'female flowers are found to have no threads. 
Of this plant there is only one known fpecies, and that is a native of Britain. 
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