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character of which is " fruit celled, beneath." 
The terms beneath or' above, applied to the 
germe, expreffes it's fituation in regard to the 
receptacle. In the rofe it is below, alfo in 
apples ; and the fame fituation of the feed- 
velTel being made ufe of a§ a mark by which 
the fubdivifion of an order is diftinguiftied, 
the neceffity is evident of becoming ac- 
quainted with thefe very minute peculiarities. 
Under the fecond divifion, characterized by 
*' fruit celled, one-feeded," there are three ge- 
nera ; at the fame time the names of two 
other plants occur, printed in italics, Valeriana 
rubra, and calcitrapa, which may require fome 
explanation : thefe ere two Ipecies of Vale- 
riana, which have but one ftamen. When 
Linneus has thought proper to make the cir- 
cumflance of an individual plant differing in 
the number of ft am ens from the reft of it's 
genus, the mark of the fpecies, he has always 
rioted fuch plants under the clafles to which, 
in ftricl: propriety, according to the rule of his 
lyftem, they fliould have been referred, and 
marked them with an afterifk ; fo the lychnis 
dioica will be found noted \n the clafs two- 
houfes ; and feveral others in the fame 
manner. 1 . 
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