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Avith fimple ftigmata. The fruit is a globofe berry 
between the cup and corolla, the cup being joined with 
the berry which is umbilical and quadrilocular having 
folitary, comprelTed feeds. 
Obf. Linn. Such is the terminatory frudlification, 
but all the laterals add one fifth part of the number. 
N. B. With great propriety this might be added a- 
mong the plants of the Decandria Clafs as every flower 
but the terminatory one hath ten ftamina. 
MsfchaielHna, "Tuherous Mojchatel. Per, March — 
June, 
E L A T I N E. Waterwort. 
The cup hath four roundifh, plain leaves, as large as 
the flower, which remain till the fruit be ripe. The 
flower hath four ovate, obtufe, feifile, patent petals. 
The eight filaments are the length of the corolla, hav- 
ing fimple antherae. The germen is orbicular, globofo- 
deprefled and large, having four ftyles, ered, parallel 
and the length of the ftamina with fimple ftigmata. 
The fruit is an orbicular, globofo-deprelfed, large, qua- 
drilocular capfule with four valves containing many lu- 
nulated, ered feeds furrounding the Receptacle in th® 
fliape of a wheel. 
Alflnajirum, with verticillat3€ leaves. Per, 
Aug. 
CLASS IX. ' 
E N N E A N D R I A. 
^he plants of [this clafs have nine ftamina,, and from one to 
fix piftilsy but in England we have none with a fe^veer 
number ofpiftils than fix,, and only one plant of that clafsy 
vi^» 
B U T O M U S. Flowering Rush. 
T he involucrum is fimple, having three Ihcrt 
leaves. The flower hath fix roundifn, concave, 
withering leaves, alternately lefs and more acute. The 
M 2 nine 
