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2. Muse i. Mosses, which have real sepa- 

 rate leaves, and often a stem ; a hood-like 

 corolla, or calyptra, bearing the style, and 

 concealing the capsule, which at length 

 rises on a stalk with the calyptra, and 

 opens by a lid. 



3. Hepatic.^. Liverworts, whose herb is 

 a frond, being leaf and stem united, and 

 whose capsules do not open with a lid. 

 Linnseus comprehends this Order under 

 the following. 



4. ALGiE. Flags, whose herb is likewise a 

 frond, and whose seeds are imbedded, 

 either in its very substance, or in the disk 

 of some appropriate receptacle. 



5. Fungi. Mushrooms, destitute of herbage, 

 bearing their fructification in a fleshy sub- 

 stance. 



Such are the principles of the Linnaean 

 Classes and Orders, which have the advan- 

 tage of all other systems in facility, if not 

 conformity to the arrangement of nature ; 

 the latter merit they do not claim. They 

 are happily founded on two organs, not only 

 essential to a plant, but both necessarily pre* 



