78 AN INTRODUCTION 
CHA rE. 
Explanation of the Tities of the Twenty- 
Jour CLASSES. 
AVING in the preceding Chapter 
given the Divifions of the Syftem, we 
fhall in this explain the Meaning of the 
Terms ufed for the Titles of the Claffes. 
As thefe Terms in the Greek Language, from 
whence they are taken, are all expreflive of 
the principal Circumftance that obtains in 
the Clafs to which they are applied, the 
Explanation of them will itfelf give us a good 
infight into the proper Characters of the fe- 
veral Clafles, and the fexual Diftin@ions on 
which they are founded: However, it will 
be neceflary to fay fomething more particu- 
lar concerning many of them afterwards in 
the Chapters we fhall allot for each of them 
feparately. 
Crass I. MONANDRIZA. 2. DI- 
ANDRIA. 3. ITRIANDRIA. 4. TE- 
TRANDRIA. 5. PENTANDRI 4, 
6. HEXANDRIA. 7. HEPTANDRIA. 
8. OCTANDRIA. 9.ENNEAN- 
- DRIA. 10. DECANDRIA.—Thele 
ten Claffes, which confift of Herma- 
phrodite 
