340 A BotranicaL DescRIPTION OF THE 
between them for the purpofe of perpetuating the {pecies. 
I, moreover, greatly admire the fyftem of your country- 
man. In moftrefpects, it is preferable to the method of 
Tournefort, or of any other botanift. But, full, [ cannot. 
help withing that the day may arrive, and, if the phyfici- 
ans of Europe continue to cultivaie botany as fome of them 
have done, it will arrive, when the fexual arrangement 
fhall give way to a more natural method, one in which 
the order, ‘or aflemblage, of nature’ will be purfued more 
rigoroufly than it has been by Linnzus. I would hardly 
venture to fpeak with fo much freedom to any other 
pupil of Linneus. You, Sir, have fhown, by the plan 
which you have purfued in your excellent Fora Japonica, 
that you do not implicitly follow the rules of your mafter. 
Your fuppreflion of the four clafles Gynandria, Monoecia, 
Disecia, and Polygamia, has always appeared to me to 
be a moft judicious ftep. ; | 
The plant under confideration would be very well plac- 
ed, between Sanguinaria and Podophyllum, in Linnzus’s 
twenty-feventh natural order, called Rhoeadee. In the 
Genera Plantarum fecundum Ordines Naturales difpofita of 
Mr. Juffieu, a work of extenfive merit, it will have a ve- 
ry natural fituation in the thirteenth clafs, denominated 
Plante Dicotyledones Polypetale. Stamina Hypogyna; and 
in the fecond order, viz. Papaveracee. Its aflociates, in 
this order, will be Sanguinaria, Argemoue, Papaver, Glau= 
cium, Chelidonium, &c. , 
Tue GENERIC CHARACTER? = 
Catyx. A perianthium, confifting of three, four, or 
five (moft generally of five), equal, concave, and lanceolate 
leaves, or pieces, rather fhorter than the corolla, of a 
pale 
