Appendix. PALMÆ, Palm-trees, a magnificent tribe of plants, chiefly tropical, whose flowers were too little known, when Linnæus wrote, to serve the purposes of classification; but they are daily clearing up, and the Palms are found generally to belong to the Classes Monoecia, Dioecia, or Hexandria.
The Orders of the Linnæan System are, in the first 13 Classes, founded on the number of the Styles, or on that of the Stigmas when the Styles are wanting, which occurs in Viburnum. Such Orders are accordingly named
Monogynia. Style, or sessile Stigma, 1.
Digynia. Styles, or sessile Stigmas, 2.
Trigynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3.
Tetragynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4.
Pentagynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5.
Hexagynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6, of very rare occurrence.
Heptagynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7, still more unusual.
Octagynia ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8, scarcely occurs at all.
