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15. TETR ADYNAMIA, this is derived from 
tetra^ quatuor, four, and dunamis^ pov/er or fuperiority, 
and jigiiilies the fuperiority of four, becaufe there are fix 
(lamina, and four are always longer than the reft, where- 
by it is diftinguhhed from the ftxch clafs, 
16. MONADELPHIA, is compounded of monos^ 
one, or the fame, and delphus^ uterus, i. e. a womb, and' 
expreffes the union of the filaments, which in this ciafs 
do not ftand feparate, but join at the bafe, and form 
one fubftance out of which they proceed, as from the 
fame v/ornb. 
1 7. DI ADELPHIA, is compounded of dis^ duo, two, 
and delphus^ uterus, a womb, and means that the ftamina 
are united into two diftindc bodies, and proceed as it 
were out of two different wombs, as the word imports. 
1 8. POLY ADELPHI Al, figniftes many wombs, 
from polus^ many, anJ delphus^ a womb, and means that 
there are many diftindl lets of ftamina proceeding out of 
as many different w^ombs, as the word imiplies. 
19. SYNGENESIA, is compounded of fun^ toge- 
ther or in company, and genefis^ generation ; and figniftes 
congeneration, and alludes to the circumftance of the 
ftamina, in which, tho’ the ftlaments ftand feparate, yet 
the anthers^, wdiich are more immediately fubfervient to 
generation, are united in a cylinder, and perform their 
oftice together. 
20. GYNANDRI A, is derived from gune^ a wife or 
female parr, and aner^ a hufband or male part, and means 
that the ftamina grow upon the piftils, fo that the male 
and female parts are united ^ a circumftance never found 
in other hermaphrodite flowers. 
21 MONOECIA, is derived from monos^ unus, one 
or the lame, and oikos^ dornus, a houfe or habitation; and 
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