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of our hedge-banks during the period of 
flowering, and continues to attract his eye by 
the brilliancy of its fcarlet berries through moft 
of the months of autumn. The following 
clafs, Moncecia, the twenty-firft clafs, contains 
fuch plants as have their flamens and piflils 
in feparate covers, but growing on the fame 
root; hazle (corylus), nettle (urtica), are in- 
fiances of the Monoecia clafs, or clafs of one- 
houfe : the orders of this clafs are derived 
from the number, union, and fituation, of 
the flamens, circumflances which conflitute 
the chief characters in the claffes, where the 
flamens and piftils grow together in the fame 
cover. There are eleven orders of the clafs 
one-houfe, which are diflinguilhed by the 
fame names that are given to the preceding 
claffes. Hazle (corylus) having feveral fta* 
mens in each fcale of it's anient, or catkin^ 
is placed in the order Polyandria, many fla- 
mens; nettle (urtica) in Tetrandria, four 
flamens ; and cyprefs (cupreffus), which is 
alfo of this clafs, is arranged under the order 
Monadetphia, one-brotherhood, having it's fla- 
mens united at their bafe, like the flowers of 
that clafs, which might lead a young botanifl 
to place it among them if he did not keep in 
his 
