PREFACE.

...enclosing [the reproductive parts] within themselves, but entirely separated from the style The part of the pistil that supports the stigma, nor joined with it in the slightest degree; so that no doubt remains that they belong to the other Sword-leaved plants of the Triandria Plants with three stamens class, or if you prefer, to the Monadelphia Plants with stamens fused into one bundle. In the Supplement to the System referring to the Supplementum Plantarum (1781), therefore, Mr. Professor LINNAEUS correctly observes that the filaments in Ferraria pavonia The Tiger Flower sheath the style. Salacia and Stilago attach either their filaments or their stalkless anthers to the ovary itself, which is also the case for Nepenthes The tropical pitcher plant. In Ayenia, the filaments sit upon the margin of the nectary, and in Gluta and Passiflora Passionflower, the filaments are more correctly said to be fixed to a unique nectary rather than to the pistil. In Kleinhovia, the stamens are within the nectary. In Pistia Water lettuce and Zostera Eelgrass, the flowering is so little "Gynandrous" original: "Gynandra"; referring to the union of male and female parts that the filaments are removed by a certain space from the pistil in a flower of unique or naked structure. Grewia and Xylopia, in which the stamens are inserted at the base of the ovary, are so genuinely members of Polyandria Plants with many stamens that it is truly a wonder they were ever separated from that class. The same and indeed just observation is made by Mr. Professor LINNAEUS in the Supplement to the System, where it is said that the genus Grewia is better placed in Polyandria. The genera of the Pepper-like plants, Arum, Dracontium, Calla, and others, bear their stamens on an elongated receptacle either separated from the stigmas or mixed among them, yet never sitting upon them. In both of these cases, a certain number of stamens can by no means be assigned to an individual flower, but they are numerous and scattered. Therefore, these could more correctly be referred to Monoecia Male and female flowers separate but on the same plant, but most correctly they are referred to Polyandria, these...