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or the connexion of one part with another. Against 

 these inconveniences the author of this System has 

 provided an all-sufficient remedy. At the head of 

 every Class and Order, after the genera which proper- 

 ly belong to them, he enumerates, in italics, all the 

 anomalous species of genera stationed in other places, 

 that by their own peculiar number of Stamens or Styles, 

 should belong to the Class or Order in question, but 

 which are thus easily found with their brethren by 

 means of the index. 



It is further to be observed that Linnaeus, ever 

 aware of the importance of keeping the natural affini- 

 ties of plants in view, has in each of his artificial Or- 

 ders, and sections of those orders, arranged the genera 

 according to those affinities ; while at the head of each 

 class, in his System, he places the same genera accord- 

 ing to their technical characters ; thus combining, as 

 far as art can keep pace with nature, the merits of a 

 natural and an artificial system. 



From the foregoing remarks it is easy to compre- 

 hend what is the real and highly important use of the 

 Genera Plantarum of Jussieu arranged in Natural Or- 

 ders, the most learned botanical work that has appear- 

 ed since the Species Plantarum of Linnaeus, and the 

 most useful to those who study the philosophy of bet- 

 micsd arrangement." 



» Smith, 



