THE 
BRITISH HERBAL. 
CLASS XXXI. 
Plants whofe flowe?' is compofed of a cup mid filaments, without any petals. 
THIS is a very Jarge clafs ; and there is not in the whole compafs of the fcience one better 
inarked, or more obvioufly diftinguifhed, to the unprejudiced eye i the want of petals, the 
gaudy part of a flower, rendering thefe altogether unlilie all the others. 
Ray has placed them together under the xtrm afeta'oits ; and others, who have followed Nature, 
have feared to feparate them. But, in the modern lyftem of Linnnsus, they are, like the reft ol^ Na- 
ture's alliances, fcattered over all his works, the doch being placed among his trianiiria, and the nlfi- 
■flex among the polygamia mom-cia at the other end of his work. Thefe are the errors agajnft which 
I declare, refting the objeftion upon Nature ; againft whom there is no appeal. 
SERIES I. 
Nathcs o/" B R I T A 1 N. 
Thofe of wliich one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country. 
GENUS I. 
APONOGETON. 
'T'HE flowers arc of two kinds, male and female, on the fame plant. The male flower confifts 
of a fmgle filament, terminated by an oval button, not having fo much as a cup. The female 
flower has a cup, formed of one leaf, and dented in two places at die edge; in which are placed fe- 
veral rudiments of feeds, crowned with Ample ftylesj and both kinds are fituated in the bofoms of 
the leaves. 
LinnEeus places this among the mncecia mGuandria, and gives it the name Zannichellla. 
Horned Aponogeton, 
Afonogelon cornutum. 
The root is fibrous, and white. 
The fl'alk is round, green, weak, and very 
much branched. 
The leaves are oblong, narrow, ' numerous, 
and of a frefli green. 
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The flowers are fmall, and grcenifh ; and 
they fl:and in the bofoms of the leaves over the 
greatefl: part of the plant. 
It is common in waters, and flowers in July; 
Pantedera calls it A^onogetQu aquatuum gra- 
mimfolhim Jlammbiis fingulanhiis. 
GENUS 
