ANALYSIS OF THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. 



ANALYSIS OF THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. 



Every Vegetable is supposed to have a Flower, which is either, 

 'VISIBLE ; 



IA AND PISTIL! 

 , AND FEMALE 

 AMINA NOT UN 



L)F EQUAL LKXi 



CLASSES. 



EXAMPLES. 



Monandria.One Stamen or Husband; as in Giager, Indian arrow-root, turmeric, blite, 



[mare's tail. 

 Diandria . . Two Stamina do Jessamine, privet, olive, lilac, speedwell. 



Triandria.. Three, .do do Valerian, tamarind, iris, and the grasses. 



Tetrandria Four ... do do Scabious, teazel, madder, holly, woodrooi. 



[plantain. 



Pentandria Five . . do do Bell-flower, bindweed, mullein, thorn-apple, & 



the rough-leaved and umbelliferous plants. 

 Hexandria Six. . . .do do Snow-drop, narcissus, tulip, aloe, hyacinth. 



Heptandria Seven do do Horse-chesnut. 



Octandria.. Eight . . do do Indian-cress, heath, French willow. 



Enneandriatiine . . do do Bay-rhubarb. 



Decandria Ten do do. Fraxinella, rue, rhododendron, lychnis 



Dodecandria Twelve do do Purslane, houseleck, asarabacca. 



Icosandria . . Many Stamina, frequently 20, attached to ) - . ,, 



the calix, and called twenty husbands ; \ Peach ' medlar ' a PP Ie - rose ' <quefoil. 



PoTyanrfn'a.Many Stamina, generally more than20,not } Herb Christopher, poppy, larkspur, columbine, 



attached to the calix, called many husbands ; i ranunculus. 



Or, OF UNEQUAL LENGTH, ******** 



Didynamia.. Two long and two short Stamina, called) Savory, hyssop, ground-ivy, balm, toad-flax, 

 the superiority of two ; $ foxglove, agnus castus, bear's breech. 



Tetradynatma.Four long and two short ditto, called ) Scurvy-grass, candy-tuft, water-cress, stock, 

 the superiority of four ; ) woad, cabbage. 



Or, STAMINA UNITED, 



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tribe. 



Diadelphia . . by the filaments of two bodies or sets of 



stamina united, unlimited in number, called > Fumitory, milk-wort, and the peabloom flowers. 



two brotherhoods ; t 



Polyadelphia.by the filaments into manybodies or sets, > Q chocolate nut, St. John's wort. 



called many brotherhoods ; > 



Syngenetia . . by the antherae or tips into a cylinder, ^ Violet, balsam', cardinal flower, and the flowers 



with the stamina separate, called generating > termed compound, as, dandelion, succory, 



together; J thistle, cudweed, tansey, bluebottle. 



Or, MALE AND FEMALE ORGANS UNITED, ~~~~ 



hence called wife and husband; 

 Or, STAMINA AND PISTILLA IN DIFFERENT FLOWERS, ******** 



Monvcia. . . .the same plant having male and female Mulb nettl oak cypresSi te cucumber. 



. flowers, called a single house; 

 Dicecia ...... males and females on separate plants, ) Willow, hop, spinach, poplar, mercury-juni- 



called the two houses ; ) per, lychnis dioica. 



Polygamia , . males, females, or hermaphrodites, found ~\ 



upon the same or different plants, called many > White hellebore, pellitory, orach, fig. 

 marriages ; J 



Or, CONCEALED. 



XXIV. Cryptogamia or concealed and cannot be described, J p mo mushroomg mou i d> a | g w. 

 called concealed marrtayes ; ) 



