i56 The reformed Seocuat System of Linnceus, 



an order Monogamia, is not therefore altogether a nahtrat 

 class. Wc obviate this by making Syngenesia an order^ 

 and the subdivision Polygam'ia to contain the natural tribts 

 of compound flowers ; whilst, under another subdivisioui 

 Monogamiay many plants, not having compound flowers^ 

 arrange themselves. 



VI II. Against Gynandria, which Doctor Smith calb 

 ** an odd and miscellaneous class," there lies the same ob- 

 jection, as we observed above, as against the class Dia- 

 DfiLPHiA, the numerical names of Classes being applied to 

 Orders, In our scheme, class 11* Diandrta, has an order 

 Gyiiandria^ which contains the natural tribe of Orchises ; 

 and thus the mind is delighted to see a natural assemblage 

 embraced in an order, if not in a class. The separation of 

 the remainder cannot be regretted, as not possessing amongst 

 each other the smallest affinity, 



IX. Moi\cECiA is a miscellaneous class, and borrows the 

 names of its secondary divisions from most of the other 

 classes, as Monandrioy Dia?idr'ia, &c., nay even from 

 Monaddphia^ Syngenesia, and Gyiiandria ; for all these 

 become, in Linnseus's Sexual System, orders. In our 

 scheme, class Triandria, order Monoocia, contains mostly 

 gTcisses : hence we retain this natural assemblage in the same 

 class at least, if not in the same order* 



X. DicEciA. The same remarks apply here, as in Mo- 



KCECIA. 



XI. PoLYGAMiA subdivides the classes Moncecla and 

 Dioecia-, therefore in the logic of science it is in reality an 

 order. 



" Pascitnr in vivis livor, post fata qriiescit. 



Turn suis e\ mciitis cukjue tuctur hoiios." Lunn. 



Some apolos^y is certainly necessary, after any endeavour 

 to reform so celebrated and established a system as the 

 Sexual System of the illustrious Linnreus. Many ; altera- 

 tions in this system have been attempted. The enlight- 

 ened pupil of Linnseus, Thunbcrg, abolished the classes 

 XX. Gynandria y XXI, Mo?iascia, XXI J, Di(ecia, and 



XXIir. Po- 



