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 Rh is more nearly allied to the Lilies than a young botanist would suppose. Near it stand several genera which have little affinity to each other, and of these Capura is a mistake, having been made out of a specimen of Daphne indica, which chanced to have but six stamens.

2. Digynia has but few genera. The valuable Oryza, Rice, of which there now seems to be more than one species, is the most remarkable. It is a grass with six stamens.

3. Trigynia. See Rumex, ''Engl. Bot. t. 1533, 127, &c., some species of which has separated flowers; Tofieldia, t. 536; and Colchicum, t. 133 and t.'' 1432.

4. Tetragynia. Petiveria alliacea, a plant the number of whose stamens is not very constant, and whose specific name is supposed to allude, not only to its garlic scent, but also to the caustic humour of the botanist whom it commemorates.

5. Hexagynia. An order in Schreber and Willdenow, contains Wendlandia