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NATURAL HISTORY. 
which there are eight, viz. Thapsia, Deadly Carrot, or Scorching 
Fennel, Pastinaca, Parsnip, Smyrnium, Alexanders, Anethum, Dill, 
Carum, Carrui, or Carraway, Pimpinella, Burnet Saxifrage, Apium, 
Parsley, and zEgopodium, Hcab Gerrard, Gout-wort, or Wild 
Angelica. 
Order III. TRIGYNIA, comprehending such plants as have 
three styles. This order contains seventeen genera, viz. Rhus, 
Sumach, Viburnuut, Pliant Menly-tree, or Wayfaring-tree, Cassine, 
Hottentot Cherry, Samhucus, Elder, Spathclia, Staphylea, Bladder- 
nut, Tamarix, Tamarisk, Turnera, Telephium, True Orphine, Cor- 
rigiola, Pharnaceum, Alfine, duckweed, Drvpis, Basella, Maliibar 
Nightshade, Sarothra, Bastard Gentian, Xylophylla, and Scrne- 
carpus. 
Order IV. TETRAGYNIA, comprehending such plants as 
have four styles. This order contains two genera, Hz. Parnassia. 
Grass of Parnassus, and Evolvulus. 
Order V. PENTAGYNIA, comprehending such plants as have 
five styles. This order contains ten genera, viz. Aralia, Berry- 
bearing Angelicon, Mahemia, Statice, Thrist, or Sea Pink, Flax, 
Aldrovanda, Drosera, Sun Dew, Crassula, Lesser Orphine, Sibbaldia. 
Gisekia, and Commersonia. 
Order VI. POLYGYNIA, comprehending such plants as have 
many style. This order contains but one genus, viz. Myosurus, 
Mouse-tail. 
Of the sixth Class, Hexandria. 
This class consists of such plants as hear hermaphrodite flowers, 
furnished with six stamina. The flowers of this class may be known 
from those of the fifteenth, by this distinction, that the stamina are 
of equal length, whereas in those of the fifteenth, which have six 
stamina likewise, there are four long and two short. The orders of 
this class are five, viz. 
Order I. MONOGYNIA, comprehending such plants as have 
hut one style. This order contains sixty -two genera, distinguished 
into, 1, Such as have trifid coroll*, and a calyx, of which there arc 
seven, viz. Bromelia, Ananas, or Pine-apple, Tillandsia, Burmannia, 
Tradescantia, Virginian Spider wort, Bursera, Licuala and Lache- 
malia. 2. Such as have inonophyllous spatha, of which there are 
nine, viz. Pontederea, 1 hemantlms. Blood- flower, Galanthus, Snow 
Drop, Leucojum, Greater Snow Drop, Tulbagia, Narcissus, Daffodil, 
Pancratium, Sea Daffodil, Duroia and Namibia. 3. Such as are 
hexapetalous and naked,* of which there are twenty-five, Hz. 
Crinum, Asphodel-lilly, Amaryllis. Lily Daffodil, Bulhocodium, 
Aphyllanthcs, Allium, Gaclick, Lilium, Lily, Fririllaria, Frittillary, 
Uvularia, Gloriosa, Superb Silly, Tulip, Erythronium, Dog’s-tooth 
Violet, Albuca, Ornithogalum, Star of Bethlehem, Scilla, Squill, 
* Without a calyx. See the table at the end of this chapter, explana- 
tory of the terms. 
