FOLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
C L A S S XIII. 
POLYANDRIA. 
ne plants of this clafs have hermaphrodite flowers^ and 
a large number of fta^nina^ or male parts in each^ that aU 
ways exceed the number of twelve^ and grow on the recep* 
tacle of the future feeds » The genera are further dijiinguijh- 
ed into MONOGTNIA, DIGTNIA, &c. 
MONOGTNIA comprehends fuch as have but one pifiiL 
ACT^A. Herb Christopher, or Bane-berries'. 
T he cup hath four roundifh, obtufe, concave, ca- 
ducous leaves, and the flower hath four petals, 
acuminated at each end, larger than the cup and .cadu- 
cous. There are many filaments (commonly thirty) that 
are flender, and broadefl: at the fummits. The antherae 
are roundifh,’ didymous and eredl. The germen is o- 
vate, without any ftyle. The fligma is thickifh and 
obliquely deprefled. The fruit is a fmooth berry of 
an ovali-globofe figure, containing one cell and marked 
with a furrow, having many femicircular feeds, inter- 
nally truncated and arranged in a double feries. 
Spicata, Herb Chriftopher with ovate clullers, and 
the fruit in berries. About Malham-cove and in a little 
wood near Clapham in Torkjh. Ptr. April~June. \ 
CHELIDONIU M. Celandine. 
The cup confifls of two roundifl-i, fubovate, con- 
cave, obtufe, caducous leaves. The flower hath four 
roundifh, plain, patent, large petals, narrower :it the 
bafe. The filaments are thirty in number, plain, broad.- 
er at the tops and fhorter than the corolla, having ob- 
long, comprefTed, obtufe, ereifl:, didymous antherae. 
The germen is cylindraceous, the length of the flamina 
without 
