MONffiCIA. 
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N° of Species in 
N° Genera. Growth. Species. Native of Britain. 
52 Zizania* h 3 Jamaica, N. America 
Calyx glume, one-jlowered, 
53 Pharus h 1 Jamaica 
ORDER VII. HEPTANDRIA. 
(seven males.) 
54 Guettarda t 1 Jamaica 
ORDER VIII. POLYANDRIA. 
(many males,—more than seven.) 
55 
Begonia 
h 
4 
India, Cape 
56 
Ceratophillum 
t & h 
2 
Europe 
Brit. 2 
57 
Fagusf 
t 
3 
Italy 
Brit. 2 
58 
Liquidambar 
t 
2 
Virginia 
59 
Myriophyllum 
h 
2 
Europe 
Brit. 2 
60 
Poterium 
h 
3 
Europe 
Brit. 1 
61 
QuercusJ 
t 
19 
Molucca, &c. 
Brit. 1 
* Zizania aquatica (wild rice) is a grass produced on the banks of the lakes of 
N. America, its seed is larger than rice,, and nearly equal in flavour, and is much 
sought for by the inhabitants for food® Linnaeus Amsem. Acade. 
f Evelyn, in bis Sylva , says that the leaves of the leech (fagus) being gathered 
about the fall, afford the best and easiest bed mattresses in the world; and are 
much used in Dauphirie and Switzerland, He also cites Juvenal, who says “Sylva 
domus , culilia frondes .** 
J Kermes (a species of insect called coccus infectorius) is found on an evergreen 
oak (quercus coccifera), and was much used in dyeing before cochineal was known. 
(See sclemnthus and cactus Both this and cochineal were for a long time con¬ 
sidered as a grain ; hence clothes dyed with these drugs were said to be dyed in 
grain.— Quercus suber is the cork tree , which Mr* Miller says requires stripping of 
its external bark (out of which they cut corks) every eight or ten years, for the 
health of the tree, which would otherwise sooner parish ;~But Mr, Dillon (in his 
travels through Spain, printed in 1782) says that they strip off the bark every four 
years as far as a white sap, which they leave on the tree; a liquid humour after¬ 
wards issues out, which thickens with the sun and air, and forms a new bark in 
about four years.— See note to spondias . Quercus nigra (black oak) is so called 
in Pensylvania, New Jersey, New York, and New England. Mr. Bartram (in his 
travels through America, printed in 1792) says that he measured several black oaks 
that were eight, nine, ten, and eleven feet diameter, five feet above the ground^ 
