228 MONOECIA PENTANDRIA. 
Pilulifera. Roman Nettle with oppofite, oval, ferrated 
leaves, and a globofe frudtiferous amentum. At Great- 
Tar mouth in Norfolk, Aldborough in Suffolk. R. Sy, 
An. Aug. ’ 
- Urens. Leffer Nettle with oval oppofite leaves. An, 
Auguft. 
Dioica. Common Nettle with oppofite, cordate leaves, 
and double branches. Per. July. 
PENTANDRIA comprehends fuch plants as have 
five ftamina. 
X A N T rl I U M. Lesser Burdock. 
The common cup of the male flower is polyphyllous, 
and imbricated with (lender fcales the lenorth of the fiof- 
cules. The compound flower is uniform, tubulofe, 
equal, and hemifpherical; the proper corolla is compof- 
ed of a fingle, tubulofe, ered, funnel-.tliaped petal, cut 
into five fegments at the top. The filaments are five 
placed within a tubulofe cylinder. The antheraj are 
cred, parallel and diftind. There is fcarce any com- 
mon receptacle difiinguifliing the flofcules with awns. 
The feminine flowers are beneath the mafculine in the 
fame plant. The cup is an involucrum formed of two 
leaves, and contains two flowers, the leaves are oppofite 
having three acute lobes, furrounded with hooked acu- 
lei, covering and adhering to the germen. The ger- 
rnen is oval and hifpid, and the llyles are hairy and 
ffigmata fimple. The fruit is a dry, oval, oblong, prick- 
ly berry, containing twm cells, jn each of which is a 
fingle, oblong feed, covered with hooked aculei, the 
apex being bihd. 
Strumarium. Leffer Burdock with a flalk without 
prickles. At Staines in Middlefex'^Nir Lawson. In the 
road from Portfmouth to London^ about three miles from 
Portfmouth. Am. Aug. Sep. 
AMARANTHUS. 
