so Tradescantia Virginica.
Junci, into a natural family which he has called Commelinece—an arrangement
which removes the incongruous union of plants with such
beautiful and conspicuous corollas as this, with those which have
merely calices. According to the principles of Jussieu, the superb
corolla of this plant must be considered as a calix, which in reason
it never can be estimated. Brown calls them, as does Linnaeus, petals.
Fig. l. Represents a portion of the plant, the size of nature.
3. A stamen.
