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CLASSIFICATION. 



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COMPLETE SCHEME OF THE LINKS AN CLASSIFICATION. 



ORDERS. 



NAMES. 



Monogynia Digynia ( yvvn , a woman) 



Do. do. Trignia .... 



Do. do. do 



Do. do. Tetragynia 



Mono, Di, Tri, Tetra, Penta, and Polygyni/v 



Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 

 Do. 



do. do. 

 do. do. 

 do. do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



do. do. 

 do. do. 



do. 

 do. 



do. 

 Heptagynia 



Hexagynia 



do. 



do. 



Decagynia . 

 Dodecagynia 

 Polygynia . 

 do. 



Gymnospermia (fv/j.vos, naked ; o-rrep/ia, seed) . 



Angiospermia (a-p-ov, a vessel) 



Siliculosa, small pod ; Sihquosa, large pod. 



Triandria, Pent., Hex., Kept., Oct., Dec., Dodec., and Polyandria. 



Do. do. do. do. 



Do. do. 



Polygamia aequalis, Superflua, Necessaria, Segregata. 

 Monandria, Diandria, Hexandria. 

 Monandria, Di., Tri., Tetra., Pent., Hex., Oct., Icos., Poly., and 



Monodelphia. 



Monandria, Tri, Tetra, Pent., Hex., Oct., Enne., Dec., Dodec., 

 Icos., Poly., Monodelphia. 



Moncecia, Dicecia. 



Filicels, Lycopods, Muscals, Lichenals, Fungals, Algals. 



DESCRIPTIONS. 



and 2 Pistils. 

 , 2, 3 do. 



, 2, 4 do. 



, 2, 3, 4, 5, and many Pistila. 



, 2, 3 do. 



, 2, 4, and 7 do. 



, 2, 3, 4 do. 



1, 3, 6, do. 



1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 do. 

 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 12 do. 

 1. 2, 5 do. 



1, 2, 3, 4, 5 do. 



Naked seeds. 

 Seeds inclosed in a vessel. 



convenient to our readers, if we illustrate the Linnaean system from the English flora 

 exclusively, and the Natural system from the foreign plants. 



CLASS I. MONANDRIA, 



This is distinguished by having but one stamen, and is subdivided into two orders, 

 Monogynia (one pistil), and Digynia (two pistils). It contains but few- 

 English plants viz., five genera and fourteen species and 

 these remarkable neither for beauty nor utility. Four 

 genera viz., Salicornia, Hippuris or Mare's-tail (growing 

 jpi ditches), Zostera, and Chara, commonly known as 

 Stonewort or "Water Horse-tail have but one pistil > 

 whilst the Callitriche, or Starwort, is the only genus 

 having two pistils. The Chara offers the most numerous 

 species (six), and is, perhaps, the least uninteresting of all 

 the genera. It is found in ditches both of fresh and 

 salt water. The organization of members of this class is 

 of a low grade. 



CLASS II. DIANDRIA. 



This class has two stamens and two orders viz., Monogynia and Digynia. It con- 

 tains several plants of interest in the eleven genera, and thirty-nine species of which 

 it is composed. Under the order Monogynia we find the well-known Privet (Ligus- 

 trum) ; the Fraxinus, or common Ashtree ; the prolific, and almost ubiquitous weed 

 Veronica, with its nineteen species ; the Pinguicula, found in bogs ; Utricularia ; 



