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fügma to the anthers beneath it, as in hemerocallis fulva, tawny day-lily.

. 3. Charaëtérs might be deduced from the attitude ofthe ftyle; as where it is pendent, that the fticma may be accommodated to the anthers above it, as in many bell-flowers. Secondly, where it is inchined at a confiderable angle to accommodite the ftigma to the in- clined anthers, as in epilobium, willow-herb, and gloriofa fuperba. Thirdly, where the ftyle is ere, to adapt the ftigma to the upright anthers, as in many flowers.

4. Where the divifions of the ftigma expand, and bend down to- ward the anthers beneath them, as in fome kinds of dianthus, pink, and in epilobium.

5. The total abfence of the ftyle might mark an order.

6. The total abfence of the ftigma, which is a charaeriftic mark of the florets of the ray in the order fruftrancous polygamy of the clafs fyngenefa,

7. Where the ftyle adheres to the ftamina, as in the natural order of Linnæus termed calamariæ, as obferved in Philof. Botanica, No. 102, on the: Piftills,:p. 69:

8. Where the ftyle füupports the ftamina as in the claf gynan- dria.|

9. Where the ftyle appears to exift both above and below the germ, as in Capparis, euphorbia,

10. The lateral adhefon of the ftyle to the germ, as in one of the natural orders of Linnæus, which he has termed fenticofæ, or briers, which includes the rofe, rafpberry, ftrawberry, agrimony, al- chemilla, and many others, which might be named from the lateral adhefon of the ftyle to the germ, which Linnæus afferts to exift both in the natural order above mentioned, and in the order Icofan- dria polygÿna. Philof. Botan. p. 67.

If to thefe proportions or fituations of the ftyle were added the va-

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