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nogynia means, one female or piftil; Bigy'nia 
fignifies two piftils, which- refers the plant to 
the fecond order; Trigynia fignifies three; 
and in the .fame manner the terms proceed to 
Polygynia, or many piftils. 
The prefence of the female part of fructifi- 
cation, or the piftils, is equally neceffary with 
that of the male, or the ftamens, to conftitute 
a fiower belonging to the fir ft thirteen Claffes ; 
and it muft alfo be remembered that the fta- 
mens, when at maturity, muft be of an equal 
height. The effential character of the clafs 
Dodecandria, or the eleventh clafs, may be 
feen in the flowers of refeda odorata, migno- 
nette ; the ftamens will be found to be not 
lefs in number than eleven, nor to exceed 
nineteen, and to be fixed on the receptacle, 
The diftinclion between the claifes Icofandria 
and Polyandria, twenty ftamens and many 
ftamens, may be well feen in the bloom of 
apple, and in the flowers of the common 
crow-foot, ranunculus arveilfis ; in the apple 
bloffom there are generally twenty ftamens., 
often more, infer ted upon the calyx, which 
is of one leaf, with the claws . of the corol 
fattened on the infide of it ; in the ,cr'ow-foot 
the ftamens are moft numerous, and all at- 
tached 
