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CHAPTER XXIV. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINN.l^lAN CLASSES AND 

 - . ORDERS. 



1 PROCEED to a compendious view of the LinRa^an 

 Classes and Orders, which \vill serve to illustrate many 

 things in the preceding pages. 



Class 1. Monamhla, Stamen 1. • 

 This contains only two Orders. 



1. Monogynia. Style 1. Here we find the beautiful 

 exotic natural order called Scltaminece, consisting 

 of Cardamoms, Ginger, Turmerick, &c., hitherto a 

 chaos, till Mr. Roscoe, in a paper printed in the 

 eighth volume of the Linnc^an Society sTransactmis^ 

 reduced them to very natural and distinct genera by 

 the form of the filament. See E.vot. Bot. t. 102, 

 103, 10(5—8. 



Salicornia, Engl. Bot. t. 415 and 1691, and 

 Hippiiris, t. 763, are British examples oi Monandria 

 Monogynia, 



Valeriana (Class 3) has some species with one 

 stamen. 



2. Digynia. Styles 2. Contains Corisper?nian, FL 



