128 BOTANY FOR BEGINNERS, [Ch. XXIf. 
ed it, and the specific name signifying blue, being the Latin | 
term for that colour. ; 
I should like to tell you more about the flowers of this class, 
but as you proceed in your analysis of plants, you will find: 
many pretty wild-flowers which belong here, as well as some. 
splendid green-house plants. 
CHAPTER XXII. 
Class 5th—Class 6th. 
Cuass V. Pentanopria, five stamens. 
Order 1. Monogynia, one pistil. 
546. The fifth class is said to include about a tenth part of 
all known species of plants. The flowers of this class have 
jive separate stamens, while those of the class Syngenesia 
have five stamens whose anthers are wnited. 
Hig. 16. 547. Fig. 76, shows you, at a, a flow-) 
er called Loose-strife; this in Botany is 
known by the generic name Lysimachia, 
which is derived from Lysimachus, the 
discoverer of the medical virtues of an 
ancient plant so named. You may find 
several different species of this plant in: 
June and July by the sides of brooks 
and in low meadow-grounds. The flow- 
ers are wheel-form, and generally yel- 
low. 
At b, (Fig. 76,) is a picture of the 
\ blossom of the trumpet honeysuckle, 
2 called Lonicera, from Lonicer, a bota 
nist of the 16th century. This flower 
has a very small five-cleft calyx, which is superior or above 
the germ; the corolla is monopetalous, and tubular; the tube 
is oblong, the limb of the sally is deeply divided into five re- 
volute parts or segments, one of which is separated from the 
others; the filaments are exserted, the anthers oblong. 
545. In what class and order did the lady find the flower of Inno- 
cence, and what is its botanical name ? 
546. What is said of the plants of the fifth class 4 
547. What does Fig. 76 represent ? 
