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 394 parcels, both sometimes cohering together at the base. This Class consists of Papilionaceous flowers, and is therefore natural, except that some such genera having distinct Stamens are excluded, and referred to the tenth Class, in consideration of their number solely; as some ringent flowers with only 2 Stamens are necessarily placed, not in the 14th Class, but the 2d.

18. . Stamens united into more than 2 parcels, as in St. John's-wort. A small Class, in some points related to Icosandria.

19. . Stamens united by their Anthers into a tube, rarely by their Filaments also; and the flowers are Compound. A very natural and extremely numerous Class. Examples of it are the Dandelion, Daisy, Sunflower, &c.

20. . Stamens united with, or growing out of the Pistil; either proceeding from the Germen, as in Aristolochia, Engl. Bot. t. 398, or from the Style, as in