80 
HEXANDRIA. 
N° of 
Species in 
N° Genera. 
Growth, species. Native of 
Britain. 
65 TJvularia 
h 
5 Bohemia 
66 Y ucca 
s 
4 America 
4th. 
Flowers incomplete. 
67 Acorus 
h 
1 Holland 
Brit. 1 
68 Calamus 
h 
1 India 
69 Juncus 
h 
22 Europe 
Brit. 15 
70 Orontium 
h 
2 Virginia, Japan 
71 Peplis 
h 
2 Jamaica 
Brit. 1 
ORDER II. DIGYNIA, 
(TWO FEMALES.) 
72 Atraphaxis 
S 
2 Cape 
73 Falkia 
h 
1 Cape 
74 Gahnia 
h 
1 
75 Nectris 
h 
1 
76 Oryza 
h 
1 E. and W. Indies 
ORDER III. TRIGYNIA. 
(three females.) 
1st. 
Flowers beneath,, 
77 Colchicum* 
h 
3 Spain 
Brit. 1 
78 Helonias 
h 
2 Pensilvania 
79 Madeola 
h 
2 Africa, Virginia 
* The hermodactyls of the shops,- is supposed to be the root of. a species of col¬ 
chicum, called colchicum variegatum. The colchicum autumnale (common meadow 
saffron, called so from its similarity to the autumnal crocus, which produces the 
saffron) is impregnated when it flowers in autumn, which matter of impregnation 
descending down the tube of the pistillum to the germen within the bulb, is there 
maturated during winter; the plant then shoots up again in spring to disperse the . 
seeds, with only leaves and a fruit-stalk with a capsule of three lobes, containing 
the seed, so that this plant produces its purple flowers in autumn, and its leaves and 
fruit in the spring following. The bulbs of this plant are poisonous, but are given 
with caution in some pestilential and putrid cases; and also in a dropsy, in the form 
of an oxynel, with honey and vinegar, (n. b. This plant hath many varieties). See 
its effects in an inveterate dropsy, in the Universal Museum for June, l 7 
