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CHAPTER XXIV. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINK/BAN CLASSES AND 

 ORDERS. 



I PROCEED to a compendious view of the Linnaean 

 Classes and Orders, which will serve to illustrate many 

 things in the preceding pages. 



CLASS 1. Monandria. Stamen 1. 

 This contains only two Orders. 



1. Monogynia. Style 1. Here we find the beautiful 

 exotic natural order called Scitaminete, consisting 

 of Cardamoms, Ginger, Turmeric k, &c., hitherto a 

 chaos, till Mr. Roscoe, in a paper printed in the 

 eighth volume of the Linncean Society sTransactions, 

 reduced them to very natural and distinct genera by 

 the form of the filament. See E.vot. Bot. t. 102, 

 103, 1068. 



Salicornia, Engl. Bot. t. 415 and 1691, and 

 Hippuris, t. 763, are British examples of Monandria 

 Monogynia. 



Vaknana (Class 3) has some species with one 

 stamen. 



2. Digynia. Styles 2. Contains Corispermimi, FL 



