NATURAL CLASSIFICAMO.N. 27 



families, Sections, and even Cohorts and I^e- 

 gions by some drillers. 



I have contended with Linneus and Jussieu, 

 that we ought to have only natural Classes and 

 Orders, but admit families as main Sections of 

 Orders, and many other Sections, in all to help 

 the analysis. The natural method may become 

 strictly analytical, as much so as in Zoology; 

 whence I perceived that Botany could be ana- 

 lyzed in a paralel number of Classes, if not of 

 Orders with Animals ; each as distinct of each 

 other as are Birds, Fishes, Worms, &c. 



Having read and studied whatever has been 

 added or stated on natural Botany since 1815, 

 I have not found needfid to change materialy 

 my proposed improvements matured between 

 1800 and 1815 ; as to Orders, but some new 

 Classes and families must be added, or find a 

 place in my method, which has the advantages 

 of facility, universality and exclusiveness, or 

 general application, and easy analysis by ex- 

 clusive characters of all the groups, like the 

 analytical tables of Lamark. 



Having published nearly 200 such new fami- 

 lies in my analysis of Nature 1815, fixing them 

 by mentioning their generic types, I deem pro- 

 per to lay claim to the following, dating as ear- 

 ly. They are all exclusive and different from 

 the 100 of Jussieu. 



TABLE OF NEAV NATURAL FAMILIES 



And their tvpes in 1815. 



I. Class, Eltrogines, Rosa the first Genus, 



type of real Rosaceous plants. 



1. Senticosia, types (xenera Ruhiis, Fra~ 



garla, ^c. 



2. PoTERiDTA, types Poterhint, Af^rimoina. 



