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CHAPTER XXIV. 



iLLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINxV^EAN CLASSES AND ORDERS, 



I PROCEED to a compendious view of the LinnaeaR 

 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 wc find the beautiful 

 exotic natural order called Sc'itammece, consisting of 

 Cardamoms, Ginger, Turmerick, &c., hitherto a 

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

 vol. of the JLmnaan Societifs Transactions, reduced 

 them to very natural and distinct genera by the form 

 of the filament. See Exot. Bot. t. 102, 103, 106 

 —8. 



Salicornia, EngL Bot. r. 415 and 1691, and Hip- 

 puris, t. 763, are British examples oi Monandria Mo- 

 nogynia, (120) 



Valeriana (Class S) has some species with one sta- 

 men. 



2. Digynia. Styles 2. Contains Corispermiim, Fl. Grtsc. 

 t. 1, Blitum, Curt. Mag. t. 276, and a few plants be- 

 sides. 



(120) [Salicornia or Glasswort, and Callitric/ie, or Water Star 

 Wort, are common American examples of the first class.] 



