VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 13. 



DELINEATION of a PLANT. 



I. THEORY. 



GENUS. The mojlfelecl Name. 



Character natural, eflential, artificial. 

 Clafs and Order of the mofil excellent Sy/lem. 

 Natural Order to be demonjlrated. 

 SPECIES. Trivial Name. 



Specific Difference to he demonjlrated : the mojl certain ', 

 and the Jhortefi. 



Synonymies from a Defcription or felecl Figure ; 

 vernacular ones. 



CRITICISMS. Etymology of the names generic, fpecific. 

 The Difcoverer with the time. 

 The Knowledge Historical, Critical, Antique. 



II. DESCRIPTION. 



ROOT duration annual, biennial, perennial. 



figure a. fibrous, branchy, fpindle-form, end-bitten. 



b. creeping, jointed, teeth-like. 



c. globular, tuberous, fafcicled, handed. 



d. bulbous : (granulated,) coated, folid, fcaly. 



TRUNK hinds Stem, Culm, Scape, Stipe. 



duration herbaceous, fome-what-fhrubby, ftirubby, arbo- 

 refcent. 

 fubjlance folid, empty, piped, woody. 

 meafure a. (the proportion to the leaves and other farts.) 



b. thiclcnefs from fame well-known fimilitude. 

 direfiion a. erecl:, ftraight, rigid, climbing, twining, creeping, 

 loofe, oblique, aicending. 

 declining > incurved, nodding, 

 diffufed, procumbent, (role-bearing. 



b. farmentous, rooting, creeping. 



c. knotted, flexuous, climbing, 

 twining: from the left, from the right. 



figure a. columnar, femi-columnar, comprell'd, piped. 

 two-edged, 3-10 angled, 

 acute-angled, obftufe-angled. 



b. > 



