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Appendix. PALMiE, Palm-trees, a 

 magnificent tribe of plants, chiefly tropical, 

 whose flowers were too little known, when 

 Linnseus wrote, to serve the purposes of 

 classification ; but they are daily clearing 

 up, and the Palms are found generally 

 to belong to the Classes Monoecia, Dioecia, 

 or Hexandria. 



The Orders of the Linneean System are, 

 in the first 13 Classes, founded on the num- 

 ber of the Styles, or on that of the Stigmas 

 when the Styles are wanting, which occurs in 

 Viburnum. Such Orders are accordingly 

 named 



Monogynia. Style, or sessile Stigma, 1, 



Digynia. Styles, or sessile Stigmas, 2. 



Trigynia 3. 



Tetragynia ■ 4. 



Pentagynia 5. 



Hexagynia ■ 6, 



of very rare occurrence. 



Heptagynia ■ 7> 



still more unusual. 



OcTAGYNIA ' 8> 



scarcely occurs at all. 



