CLASS VI. HEXANDRIA.* * 
(six stamina or males.) 
Containing jive orders. 
ORDER I. MONOGYNIA. 
(one female.) 
N° of Species in 
N® Genera. Growth, species. Native of Britain. 
1st. Flowers calycled,f furnished zvith calyx and corolla. 
Corols one-petaled. 
1 Agapanthus h 1 Cape 
2 Duroia t 1 Surinam 
Corols three-petaled, or three-parted 
3 Bromelia li 
4 Burmannia h 
5 Bursera s 
6 Hepetis h 
7 Lachenalia 
8 Mnasium h 
9 Tillandsiaf h 
10 Tradescantia h 
7 W. Indies 
2 Ceylon 
1 W. Indies 
1 
1 
1 
7 America 
8 Virginia, Malabar 
*The stamina in this class being of equal length, is the distinction from the class 
tetradynamia, where the stamina are four long and two short.—The bulbous roots 
in this class, according as they smell and taste, are esculent, or noxious; as daffo¬ 
dil, hyacinth, fritillary, &c. having a disagreeable smell, are noxious ; others are 
corrosive, as garlic, &c. but by roasting or boiling they lose great part of their acri¬ 
mony, and become esculent. The roots of martagon, tulip, star of Bethlehem, &c. 
are esculent, having no smell. 
f The calyx in some genera is only a rim or border. 1 
* Tillandsia is a parasitical plant, and grows on branches of trees, like the misleioe ; 
the seeds are furnished with many long threads on their crowns; which as they are 
driven forwards by the winds, wrap round the arms of trees, and thus are held fast 
till they vegetate.—This is very analogous to the migration of spiders on the gos¬ 
samer, who are said to attach themselves to the end of a long thread, and rise thus 
to the tops of trees or buildings, as the accidental breezes carry them. cBotanic 
Garden, part ii. p. 56 .) The tillandsia lingulata is a native of Jamaica, and 
