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Octagyxia. Styles, or sessile Stigmas, 8,
scarcely occurs at all.
Enxeagynia-9,
of which there is hardly an instance.
Decagynta -10.
Dodecagynia —--about 12.
Polygynia -many.
The two Orders of the fourteenth Class, Didyna-mia, both nearly natural, are characterized by thefruit, as follows :
1. Gymnospermia. Seeds naked, almost univer-sally four, never more.
2. Axgiospermia. Seeds in a seed-vessel, numerous.The two Orders of the fifteenth Class, Tetrady-
namia, both very natural, are distinguished by theform of the fruit, thus :
1. Siliccjlosa. Fruit a Silicula , Pouch, or roundishPod.
2. Siliquosa. Fruit a Sitiqua, or long Pod.
The Orders of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eigh-teenth Classes, Monadelphia, Diadelphia and Poly-adclphia, are founded on the number of the Stamens ,that is, on the characters of the first thirteen Classes.
The Orders of the great natural nineteenth Class,Syngenesia, are marked by the united or separated,barren, fertile, or abortive, nature of the florets.