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inclufive : No Flowers have been yet found 
to have eleven Stamina, which is the Reafon 
no Clafs has been allotted to that Number. 
Crass XI. JCOSANDRI A—This 
Term imports, that the Flowers have ¢wenty 
Hutbands or Stamina: But here again the 
Title is to be underftood with great Lati- 
tude; for though the Plants that belong to 
this Clafs are rarely found with lefs than 
twenty Stamina, yet they frequently have a 
greater Number: and they are therefore not 
to be known with Certainty from thofe of 
the next Clafs, without having Recourfe to 
their clafic Character ; which, not being 
expreffed in the ‘Title, we forbear the Expla- 
nation of here, as we fhall give it in the 
Chapter allotted for this Clafs. 
Crass XII. POLY ANDRIA— 
This Term imports, that the Flowers have 
many Stamina. 
Crass XIV. DIDYNAMI1Z4.—This 
Term fignifies the Power or Supériority 
of two, and is applied to this Clafs, becaufe 
its Flowers have four Stamina, of which 
there are two longer than the reft: Thts 
Circumftance aloneis fufficient to diftinguifh 
this Clafs from the fourth, where the four 
Stamina are equal ; but the Flowers of this 
Clafs have alfo their particular Character, 
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