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LINNjEAN method. 
6-partite, or of 6 pieces : 3 outer herbaceous, 3 inner petaloid. 
Stam. 9 — 12, or more. Germen inferior. Stigmas 3 — 6. — 
Floating plants, p. 423. 
Ord. VI. Monadelfhia. Stamens combined, in one set. 
* Perianth 6- leaved . Flowers not in catkins. 
24. Iinscus. Flowers on the leaves. Style and stigma 1. 3erry 
3-celled. p. 448. 
** Perianth none. Barren flowers in catkins. 
25. Salix. Fertile fl. in catkins. Style 1. Stigmas 2. Caps 2- 
valved, with many comose seeds, p. 397. 
26. Joniperus. Style and stigma 0. Seeds about 3, inclosed 
within several fleshy and at length united scales, p. 420. 
27. Taxus. Style and stigma none. Seed solitary, bony, contained 
in a fleshy cup. p. 421. 
Ord. VII. Polyadelphia. Stamens combined in three (or more ) sets. 
28. Bryonia. Filaments (or sets of stamens) 3 ; anthers 5. Fruit 
inferior, fleshy, p. 150. 
Class XXIII. POLYGAMIA . 1 Stamens and pistils separated or 
united, on the same or ond ifferent plants, and having the perianth 
(of some or all) of the pistillate flowers difj'erent from that of the 
sterile ones. 
Order I. Moncecia. The two kinds of flowers on the same plant. 
1. Atriplex. Barren and perfect fl . 2 Perianth single, 5-partitc. 
— Pistillate fl. Perianth single, of 2 valves. Fruit superior, 
1 -seeded, covered by the enlarged perianth, p. 362. 
Class XXIV. CRYPTOGAMIA . 3 Stamens and pistils not evident. 
This class corresponds with the third class of the Natural Arrange- 
ment, Acotyledones, which see, p. 576. 
1 From roXv?, many y and yot.ucs, vnion; in allusion to the stamens and pistils 
being sometimes separated in the same or in different plants. 
- The supposed united fl. are by some considered to be only a second kind of 
pistillate flowers, and to be without fertile stamens, which would remove this 
genus to Moncecia. 
3 From y.^v'TTosj concealed , and yoc/xoc ; in reference to the obscure mode of fruc- 
tification. 
