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often united flowers, are best in the 10th Class, as Euclea in the llth. I find no genera truly icosandrous here, though Schreber esteems Flacourtia and Hedycarya to be so.


8. Monadelphia. Taxus, t. 746, and perhaps Juniperus, t. 1100, also the exotic Ephedra, are legitimate examples of this Order. Spurious ones are Nepenthes, Myristica the Nutmeg, and Schreber's Xanthe, all placed by him in the now abolished Order Syngenesia, and which can only take shelter here while the Class remains as it is, for they have no difference of structure in the accessory parts of their flowers.


Class 23. Polygamia. Stamens and Pistils separate in some flowers, united in others, either on the same plant or on two or three distinct ones; such difference in the essential organs being moreover accompanied with a diversity in the accessory parts of the flowers. Orders 3.