432 POLYANEiRiA, 



influenced me in the preceding class. They 

 now only serve to keep natural genera 

 asunder, the species of which not only 

 differ among themselves as to number of 

 pistils, but each species is often variable 

 besides. The genera are so few that no 

 inconvenience could arise on that account. 

 I conceive such reforms, founded in expe- 

 rience not in theory, serve to strengthen 

 the system, by greatly facilitating its ap- 

 plication to practice. 



Polygyria. An order for the most part 

 natural, comprehending some fine exotic 

 trees, as Dillenia, Exot. Bot. t. 2, 3, 92 

 and 93; Liriodendron, the Tulip-tree; the 

 noble Magnolia, &c»; a tribe concerning 

 whose genera our periodical writers are 

 falling into great mistakes. To these suc- 

 ceed a family of plants, either herbaceous 

 or climbing, of great elegance, but of acrid 

 and dangerous qualities, as Anemone, in a 

 single state the most lovely, in a double 

 one the most splendid, ornament of our 

 parterres in the spring; Airagene and 

 Clematis, so graceful for bowers: Thalic- 



