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CHAPTER XXIV. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LlNNiEAN 

 CLASSES AND ORDERS. 



I proceed to a compendious view of the 

 Linncean Classes and Orders, which will serve 

 to illustrate many things in the preceding 

 pages. 



Class 1. Monandria. Stamen 1. 

 This contains only two Orders. 

 1. Monogynia. Style 1. Here we find the 

 beautiful exotic natural order called Sci- 

 taminece, consisting of Cardamoms, Gin- 

 ger, Turmerick, &c, hitherto a chaos, till 

 Mr. Roscoe, in a paper printed in the 8th 

 vol. of the Linnaan Society's Transactions, 

 reduced them to very natural and distinct 

 genera by the form of the filament. See 

 Eiot. Bot. t. 102, 103, 106—8. 



