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CRYPTOGAMIA. ‘a 
though he mentions the mistakes in which many of them 
had been involved, he does ample justice to those who had 
anticipated him in any part of his discoveries. 
The Cryprocamia Class may be considered as con- 
taining a number of vegetables whose flowers and fructifi- 
cation are but little or very imperfectly known, and whose 
stamens and pistils are too minute to admit of that mode of 
investigation which prevails through the preceding classes. 
The structure, too, of these vegetables, differs considerably 
from that of other plants. r 
They may be divided imto the following orders or 
assemblages: 1, MISCELLANEA; 2, FILICES: 3. 
MUSCI; 4, HEPATIC; 5, ALG‘; 6, FUNGI, 
mmeerning each of these we shall now speak more par- 
ticularly. é; 
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MISCELLANE. (Sehreb.) Miscellaneous. 
* The plants comprized in this Order, are such a8 are 
incapable of arranging under any of the subsequent Orders, 
neither do they agree one with another. They are redu~ 
cible to some one of the following Genera. 
Equisetum. Lycopodium. ~ Pilularia. Toetes. 
EQUISE’TUM. Hepwic illustrates the structure of 
this genus by a particular examination of the EquiseTum 
‘  sylvaticum, and E. palustre. The former, as well as the 
i arvense, protrudes its club-shaped head out of the earth 
vera 
may be dist 
discovers green oval bodies, and attach 
after looks like cotton or tow. So far 
‘the naked eye, but a good microscope 
rie se red \ each of them, 
