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CHAPTER XXIV. 



ILLUSTRATIOXS OF THK LIXNiEAN 



CLASSES AND ORDERS. 



1 PROCEED to Ji compendious view of the 

 Linnipan Classes and Orders, which will sei*ve 

 to illustrate many thing's in the preceding 

 pages. 



Class 1. MQuandvia. Stamen X. 



This contains only two Orders. 

 1. Monogi/nia. Style 1. Here we fmd the 

 beautiful exotic natural order called Sci- 

 taminecc, consisting of Cardamoms, Gin- 

 e;er, Turmerick, &c., hitherto a chaos, till 

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

 vol. of the Limuean Society's Transactions, 

 reduced them to very natural and distinct 

 genera by the form of the filament. See 

 Jt:xQt,Bot. t. 102, 103, 106—8. 



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