VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 25. 



ORDERS are taken from the Females or Piftils, as clafTes from the 

 Males or Stamens; but in the clafs of Conne&ed Males the Orders 

 differ from others, as in 



ONE FEMALE, Two Females, Three Females, &c. according to 

 the number of Piftils. 



The number of the piflil is reckoned from the Safe ofthejiyle ; but if 

 there is nojlyle, the calculation is made from the number of Stigmas. 



EQUAL POLYGAMY, confifts of many marriages with promif- 

 cuous intercourfe. 



That is of many florets furnijhed zuithfla?nens andpiflils, 



The flowers of thefe are vulgarly called Flofculous. 



SPURIOUS POLYGAMY, where the beds of the married occupy 

 the difk, and thofe of the concubines the circumference. 



That is, the hermaphrodite florets occupy the difk, and the female 

 florets without flamens fur round the border ■, and that in three manners: 



f (a) SUPERFLUOUS POLYGAMY, when the married females 

 are fertile, and thence the concubines fuperfluous. 



That is, when the hermaphrodite flovjers of the di/k are furnijhed 

 with /ligmas, and produce feeds ; and the female flowers alfo, which 

 conjlitue the circumference, produce feeds like-wife. 



(b) FRUSTRANEOUS POLYGAMY, when the married fe- 

 males are fertile, and the Concubines barren. 



That is, ivhen the hermaphrodite fowers of the difk are furnijhed 

 with ajligma, and produce feeds ; but the florets which conjlitute the 

 circumference, having nofligma -produce no feeds. 



(c) NECESSARY POLYGAMY, when the married females 

 are barren, and the concubines fertile. 



That is, when the hermaphrodite floivers from defecl ofthejligma 

 of the piflil, produce no feed ; but the female flowers in the circumfe- 

 rence produce perfect feeds. 



(e) SEPARATE POLYGAMY, when many beds are fo united 

 that they conftitute one common bed. 



That is, when many flower-bearing calyxes are contained in one 

 common calyx, fo as to conjlitute one flower. 



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