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, C L A S S XXIII. 
P O L Y G A M I A. 
l^his vlafs comprehends fuch plants as hear hermaphrodite 
fiozvers^ and alfo male or fefnule or elfe both. 
MO N 0 E C I A comprehends fuch plants as have the 
pclygarny on the fame plant, 
V A L A N T I A. Crossv/ort, cr Mugweed. 
T he hermaphrodite flov/er is folitary. There is 
fcarce any cup. The' flower is monopetalous, 
plain, quadripartite, and the fegments are oval and acute. 
There are four filaments the length of the corolla, hav- 
ing fmall anthers. The germen is large, the fliyle is 
the length of the flamina, and femi-bifld, and the ftig- 
mata are headed-, the feed-veifel is coriaceous, coiupref- 
fed and reflex, and contains one globofe feed. 
Mafculine fiower. 
There is fcarce any cup. I'he flov/er is monopetalous, 
plain, tripartite or quadripartite, and the fegments are 
oval and acute. Tiiere are four filaments the length of 
the corolla, furniflied with Imall anthers. The ger- 
men is fmall, the ffyle and ftigmata obfoiete, and fcarce 
difcernable. 
Cruciata^ Crcfswort or Mugweed with mafculine, 
quadrifld flowers, and diphyllous peduncles. Per, May^ 
June^ 
PARIETARIA. 
