OUTLINES OF BOTANY. B.S § 
determinate in form and position. In the eyes 6 seed bee 
are Peete regular and ups ees tag re tak 
. Lobes of the disk (137), or other ll fles mein soe st 
the sini whether from the cuctedla, poms em pervect or pistil. 
Cuap. I. Cnassiricarion, or Systematic Borany. 
yeh It a already been a (3) that va hap of ~~ should, 
arly as possible, be arranged under natural divisio 
facilitate the comparison 0 xs eac ate: plant with “those most igs allied to 
it. The descriptions of plants here alluded to are descriptions of species; 
the natural divisions of the Flora refer to Seal groups of species. 
are cies comprises all the iedividioad plants pipet ch pee sear 
other mee 4 to spon us Darimiiarg that they are all, or may have bee 
all, descended from n parent. Thes: pndtviduate’ vy often differ 
from i's ther e Giiay oe iking Particulars, Sonage as the colour of the 
flower, size of this sige som — en partic are such as experience 
teaches us are liable to vary in the seedlings vained from one individual. 
178. When a large sites of the individuals of a species differ from 
the others c any striking particular they constitute a Variety. If the 
from seed, it is often called a Race. 
179. & Variety can only be propagated with certainty by grafts, cuttings, 
yo i ant by 
ul r an 
development of one or more buds taken from the ol ciggat A ance — 
with care be propagated py cesta although seedlin alw be 
liable, under certain circumstances, to lose those parte nah dis- 
tinguish it ai om the rest of he species. A real Species will always come 
true from se 
. The 
merous for the his mind to study without classification , or even to 
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under one name are Het called Z 
the a cna species is then distinguished from the others of 
the s by rt addition of an ———. —_ or fe ser name. 
Eve een iid s aes thus a botanical name o words. In Latin, the 
language oes! used for the purpose, the first word is a oe ask tive 
and designates the genus; the second, an adjective, gat ate the species. 
In English, the adjective or specific name comes before the substantive 
or a a one, 
. The genera thus formed being still too numerous — th 
oa without further se Soha eth — have been classed upon 
same principles; viz. gen which resemble each other more than ne 
do any other genera, pei ren silacied together into groups of a higher 
degree ited Families or Natural Orders, to each of which a com 
e has been given. This name is in Latin an adjective plural, pre 
sa96e set the name of some one typical genus, generally the best known, 
