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of the length of the longer Jiamina. ^he ftigma is always 
ohtufe. The fruit or capfule is always a bivalve pod^ 
which often contains two cells \ this when ripe^ opens by 
fplittbtg from the apex to the bafe^ and it has always a 
little membranous fubftance ferving within as a feptum^ 
when the pod is bilocular this ftands out beyond the apex^ 
and is the rudiments of what was before the fiyle. "dhe 
feeds are roundifh and the pod ufually narrow and obloyig, 
This clafs is naturally divided into two feries^ the one con- 
taining the Siiiculofe and the other the Siliquofe plants : 
the firjl have a jhort pod^ and the others a long and fen- 
der one : The firft pods ujually have more of the remains 
cf the fyle than the others, 
SILICULOSA. 
M Y A G R U. M. Gold of Pleasure. 
T he cup is tetraphyllous, the leaves are ovato- 
oblong, concave, gaping, coloured, deciduous, 
The dower is tetrapetalous and cruciform, the petals are 
plain, roundifh and obtufe, the ungues are narrow. 
There are fix hiaments the length of the cup ; of thefe 
the four oppohte are a little longer than the reft. The 
anthers are fimple. The germen is ovate, the ftyle is 
(lender and the length of the cup, the ftigma is obtufe. 
Thefilicula is obcordate, partly comprefled and rigid; 
the apex ends in a rigid conical ftyle and has two valves ; 
the pods in fome are empty. 
Obf. Linn. MyagriT. The feed veftel is unilocular 
with two empty cells in the top and one at the bafe con- 
taining feeds. 
Sativum, Gold cf Pleafure with ovate, pedunculated, 
polyfpermous filiculs. Among flax. An, June, 
VELLA. 
