LlNtoEAN 

 NATURAL SYSTEM. 



1. In addition to the artificial arrangement just ex- 

 plained, the immortal Linnaeus, gave much of his time 

 and labour to establish a system on the natural character 

 of plants, and as the result of his investigations, he has 

 presented to the world, the following fragments of a natu- 

 ral arrangement. 



Linnaeus never gave any distinct marks to his natural orders, we 

 can therefore only take a cursory view of them as they follow each 

 other, with such indications of their characters, as have been traced 

 by modern botanists. 



ORDER I. PALMjE. 



2. The tribe of palms is an entirely natural and very 

 distinct order, constituted by families of lofty plants 

 with very peculiar frondose tops. Phoenix, cocos, &c. 



With the genera f this order some' have a three-leaved calyx, 

 others none at all ; some have a corolla of three, others one of six 



