LESSON 33.] ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM OF LINNJEUS. 



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575. The twenty-four classes of Linnaeus were founded upon 

 something about the stamens. The following is an analysis of 

 them. The first great division is into two great series, the Pkce- 

 nogamous and the Cryptogamous, the same as in the Natural System- 

 The first of these is divided into those flowers which have the sta- 

 mens in the same flower with the pistils, and those which have not ; 

 and these again are subdivided, as is shown in the following tabular 

 view. 



Series I. PH^ENOGAMIA ; plants with stamens and pistils, i. e. with red 



flowers. 



1. Stamens in the same flower as the pistils : 

 * Not united with them, 

 -t- Nor with one another. 



-t-*- Of equal length if either 6 or 4 in number. 



