20 INTRODUCTION TO 
flower. This Order is subdivided into seven parts. The want 
of the 4 naked Seeds, and the Rovcu Lxaves, immediately 
determine him to reject the Ist subdivision. ‘The blo/som being 
fixed beneath the Germen, not corresponding with his flower, he 
rejects the 2d, and pafses on to the 3d subdivision, where he 
finds (3) Flowers of 1 Petal superior ; and the Sceds in a vefsel. 
This Flower consists of 1 Petal, and this Petal is fixed supe- 
' rior to, or above the Germen. This subdivision containing 4 
Genera, he observes the 3 first have Capsules ; but in the last 
the Seed-vefsel is a Berry with 2 Cells; this circumstance, 
_ added to the inequality of the BRlofsom, and the knob at the 
top of the Pistil, induces him to believe it to be a Lonicera. 
He looks for the Generic description, and comparing the 
flower with that, is contirmed in his opinion. Under this 
Genus he finds only two Species; he compares. it with the 
Specific Character of each, and readily determines it-to be 
the Lonicera Periclymenum, or Wood-bine Honey-suckle. A 
sull more attentive examination will now convince him of the 
propriety of the remark subjoined to the Generic description. 
EXAMPLE VI. | ay 
DAU ‘CUS. | (Carrot.) 3 ae 
We select this as an example of the Umbelliferous or Re x= 
pie-bearing plants. (See the introduction to the 5th Clafs.) “2 
The 5 Stamens with Anthers not united, and the 2 Pistils, 
evident in each Floret, determine us to look for it in the Order 
_ Digynia, of the 5th Clafs. This Order admits of four subdi- 
— visions. (1.) Flowers incomplete. The Genera here do not at all 
accord with our plant; Xanthium has the Male and Female 
flowers separate; the Ulmus bears a dry berry, and a Calyx 
of 1 leaf; the Humulus has the flowers Male and Female’ on 
different plants ; and the other five Genera have only one seed 
in each flower—2. Flowers of 1 Petal; beneath. But our 
plant has. five Petals; therefore we go to the 3d, Flowers of 5 — 
Petals ; beneath. ‘Che Florets in hand have 5 Petals, but the 
_ Petals are not placed beneath “the Germen; “This subdivision _ 
contains only a reference to the Staphylea; therefore wepro- _ 
ceed to the 4th, Flowers of 5 Petals ; mostly of 2 Seeds, UM- — 
