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though we are somewhat startled at finding Polygala at 

 the head of the list, which Linnaeus, not more happily 

 perhaps, ranges with his Lomentacea, ord. 33. 



36. Acanthi are a few more of the Personate. 



37. Jasminece are precisely the Linnaean Sepiaria, 

 ord. 44. 



38. Vitices consist of more Personate, separated with 

 judgement from the rest. Linnaeus having, in the con- 

 templation of his 40th order, been again seduced by arti- 

 ficial principles, and by the usage perhaps of considering 

 his Didynamia Angiospertnia as of itself a natural order. 



39. Labiata are precisely the Verticillatcc, ord. 42, of 

 Linnaeus, a tribe about which no two systematics could 

 differ, and which it is one of the greatest evils of the arti- 

 ficial sexual system to be obliged to disjoin. 



40. Scrophularia are more of the Personata, ranged 

 here, after the Labiata, on account of the close affinity 

 of several of them to the next order. But it must be con- 

 fessed that the Labiata thus come awkwardly between 

 what are strictly akin, and that this intrusion is a great 

 flaw in the natural character of the system ; insomuch 

 that we should gladly remove them to another place, be- 

 tween the Solanea and Borraginea hereafter mentioned. 



41. Solanecc consist principally of Luridce, ord. 28, to 

 which a few more of the Personates are subjoined as allies. 

 It is remarkable that, in his characters of the seven last- 

 mentioned orders, Jussieu admits those marks, derived 

 from the stamens, on which the classes of the Linnaean 

 artificial system depend. The intelligent reader will easily 

 observe, that the distinctions thence deduced, form a lead- 

 ing principle in the respective positions of these orders 

 and the following. This is the more curious, as the French 

 school is entirely obliged to Linnaeus for bringingthe organs 

 in question into notice, for the purposes of arrangement, 

 Tournefort and his pupils having never adverted to them. 



42. Borraginea, these are the Asperifolicc, ord. 41, of 

 Linnaeus, surely better placed by him between his Perso- 



