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NATURAL HISTORY. 
Order I. MONOGYNIA, comprehending such plants as have 
but one style.* This order contains one hundred and fifty-five ge- 
nera, distinguished into, 1 . Manopetalous Tetraspermous.f of which 
there are sixteen, { viz. Heliotropiiun, Turn-sole, Mvosotis, Mouse- 
ear, Scorpion Grass, Lithospermum, Gromvrell, Anchusa, Bugloss, 
Cynoglossum, Hound’s-tongue. Puhnonaria, Lungwort, Symphytum, 
Comphrey, Omnosma, Ccriuthe, Honey-wort, Borago, Borrage, 
Asperugo, Wild Bugloss or Goose Grass, Lycopsis, Echium, Viper’s 
Bugloss, Nolana, Tournefurtia, and Messerschinidia. 2. Monopeta- 
lous with the capsule within the flower ; of which there are thirty- 
five, viz. Diapensia, Anuria, A ml rosace, Primula, Primrose, Cortusa, 
Bear’s ear Saniele, Porana, Soldauel, Dodeoatheon, Meadia, Cycla- 
men, Snow-bread, Menyanthes, Bog-bean, or Marsh Trefoil, Hottonea, 
Water Milfoil, or Water Violet, Hydrophyllum, Water-leaf Lysima- 
cliia. Loosestrife, Anagillis, Pimpernel, Theophrasta, Patagonula, 
Spigelia, Worm-grass, Opliiorrhiza, Serpent’s Tongue, liandia, 
Axalea, American Upright Honeysuckle, Plumbago, Lead -wort. 
Phlox, Lichnidea, or Bastard Loclmis, Convolvulus, Bind-weed. Ipo- 
mea, Quamoclit, Lisianthus, Brossea, Allamanda, Polemonium, 
Greek Valerian, Nigrirta, lletzia, Schefficldia, Epacris, Doraena, 
Wejgela, Teetona, and Ignatia. 3. Monopetalous with the Germen 
below the flower; of which there are thirty-one, viz. Campanula, 
Bell-flower, Roelle, Phyteuma, Rampious, Trachelium, Umbelliferous 
Throat-wort, Samolus, Round leaved Water Pimpernel, Nauclea, 
Rondeletia, Macrocnenmm, Bellonia, Portlandia, Cinchona, Psycho- 
tria, C'ofea, Coffee-tree, Chiococea, Cerepegia Lonicera, Honey- 
suckle, Triosteum, Fever-root, or false Ipecacuana, Morinda, Couo- 
carpus, Button-tree, Hamellia, Erithalis, Menais, Genipa, Matthiala, 
Scsevola, Mussseenda, Virectn, Escallonia, Caroxylon, Elaedendrum, 
and Hovenia. 4. Such as have declining stamina ; of which there 
are seven, viz, Mirabilis, Marvel of Peru, Coris, Heathlow Pine, 
Verbascum, Mullein, Datura, Thorn Apple, Hyocyamus, Henbane, 
Niootiana, Tobacco, and Atropa, Deadly Nightshade. 5. Mono- 
petalous, with a berry above the receptacle : of winch there are 
twenty-two, viz. Physalis, Alkakingi, or Winter Cherry, Solanum, 
Nightshade, Capsicum, Guinea Pepper, Strychnus, Jacquinia, 
Chironia, Brunsfelsia, Cordia, Sibeatan, Pergularia, Cestruui, 
Bastard Jasmin, Ebretia, Varronia, I-augieria, Lycium, Box-thorn, 
Chrysophyllum, Star-apple, Sideroxylum, Iron-wood, Khamuus, 
Buckthorn, Arduina, Bastard Lycium, Ellisia, Rhylica, Bastard 
Alatemus, Bladhia, and Fragraea. 6. Polypetalous, ot which there 
are thirty-one, viz. Ceanothus, Now Jersey Tea, Byttneria, Myrsine, 
African Box-tree, Celastrus, Staff-tree, Euonymus, Spindle-tree, 
Diosma, African Spirea, Brunia, Itea, Galax, Cedrela, Mangifera, 
* The berries of the monopetalous plauts of this order are for the most 
part poisonous. 
+ With four seeds. 
J These are the Asperifolia, rouah -leaved plants of Ray’s History, 
page 487. They are accounted glutinous and vulnerary. 
