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ITT. — ^The Class XIII. Polyandria, also readily divides 

 into two parts, IVom the consideration of the insertion of 

 the stamina ; and one of these, the Icosandria of Linnseus, 

 possesses many edible fndts ; but ad it is not altogether a 

 natural class, therefore no one can regret seeing this part 

 distinguished as an order. 



IV.— In theMoNADELPHiA of Linnaeus, many of the nu- 

 merical names, which bad been used to characterize the 

 classes, are employed to distinguish the orders, or subdi- 

 visions, as Pentandria, Decandria, &c., and hencje arises 

 a confusion unavoidably perplexing to the young student, 

 and which our method, as is evident, completely removes. 

 The same observation applies to the classes Diadelphia^ 

 Polyadelphia, Gyna?idria, Moncecia, Dioecia, where the 

 «ame (may I call it so) impropriety occurs. This class in 

 Linnaeus is not natural, hut, being made into orders, many 

 ef them then become natural a.s orders, as the Colum- 



KIFER^. 



V. — The Papilionaceous Flowers, as they are generally 

 termed, form the order Decandria in the class Diadelphia 

 of Linnaeus ; but the author, unvv'illing, as it would seem, 

 to make any breach in so natural an assemblage of plants, 

 has so far deviated from the principles of his system, as to 

 refer to that class several genera, which strictly belong to 

 the preceding class, being in fact Monadelphious, This in- 

 convenience is entirely obviated in the present scheme, 

 where Monadelphia 3ind Diadelphia constitute two successive 

 orders in our class X. Decandria. 



Vr. — Polyadelphia is a small, and, as Doctor Smith 

 observes, " rather an unnatural class,** Most persons are 

 shocked to sec Citrus, the orange, in this class, and not 

 in the Icosandria class; for Linnaeus describes it of the 

 class XVIII. Polyadelphia, order III. Icosandria, Now 

 in our Reformed Sexual System, it comes under class XIII. 

 Polyandria, order Icosandria, in juxta-position with other 

 edible fruits, in the subdivision Polyadelphia. 



VII. — Class V. Pentandria, a very numerous class, is 

 subdivided by Svngenesia, and so formed into two classes 

 by Linnaeus,, the latter of which, however, as containing 



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