TAXONOMY AND PHYTOGRAPHY. 



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Comparative View of the Systems of De Candolle and 

 Jussieu. 



We have explained in art. 102. the meaning of the terras 

 which designate the principal groups of De Candolle in 

 the first column of this table; and we shall now explain 

 those which have been proposed for the classes of Jussieu, 

 in the second column, as their etymology may assist the 

 reader in recollecting them. They are combinations 

 of words expressive of the three modes of floral arrange- 

 ment described in art. 101., applied respectively (in the 

 Dicotyledones) to the "petals," when these organs do 

 not cohere together; to the " corollae," when they are mo- 

 nopetalous; and to the " stamens," when the perianth is 

 single. Thus, Epicorollae indicates, that a monopetalous 

 corolla is epigynous in the 10th and llth classes; which 

 are further distinguished from each other by the anther 



