38 NATURAL CLASSIFICATION. 



even quite agree as yet on the terms to be given 

 to Natural groups, and mix or transpose the 

 terms of Series, Classes, Orders, Tribes, Fami- 

 nes, Legions, Cohorts <Slc. as Necker did Ge- 

 nera, Species and Proles. I gave the rules for 

 this in 1814 and I now give a table of the proper 

 terms in Latin and English. 



The vegetable or botanical World or Em- 

 pire or Kingdom, may be gradualy divided by 

 complete analytical process into 6 main or es- 

 sential successive Sections of the whole, or into 

 12 lesser Sections, as follow. 



First Series or Primary Classes, or Clusters 

 of Classes — Series vel Classes Primordiales. 



I. 2. Classes, the regular common Natural 

 Classes — Classes Natur. 



II. 3. Primary Orders or Sub-Classes — Or- 



dines primaris vel Sub-Classis. 

 II. 4. Natural Orders — Ordines Naturalis. 

 5 Tribes or Sub-Orders; Tribu vel Sub-Ord. 



III. 6. Natural Families — Familia Naturalis. 

 7. Sub-families — Sub-familia s. Genera pri- 



mordialis. 



IV. 8. Genera, or Generic groups and types. 

 9. Sub-Genera, their Sections not based on 



fructification. 

 V, 10. Species, Specific types of Individuals. 



II. Breeds or Proles, Specific deviations. 

 VI. 12. Varieties of Individuals. 



Individuals alone have a separate physical 

 existence, all the other clusters are useful bo- 

 tanical groups of ideal abstractions based on 

 physical characters, by successive proportions 

 of affinities; as political institutions collect men 

 in successive clusters of families, clans, ranks 

 or castes, communities, tribes and States. 



Therefore, Individuals are the main object 



