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CHAPTER IX. 



COMPARISON OF THE NATURAL ORDERS OF LIN- 

 NAEUS WITH THOSE OF JUSSIEU. 



JL HE present publication would be incomplete with- 

 out some account of the Fragments of a Natural Me- 

 thod, as Linnaeus terms his performance, subjoined 

 by this great botanist to the 6th edition of his Genera 

 Plantarum, an ample commentary upon which, col- 

 lected partly from his lectures on this particular sub- 

 ject, was published at Hamburgh in 1792, by Prof. 

 Giseke, under the title of Pralectioncs in Ordines 

 Naturales Plantarum. 



An exposition of these Linnasan Orders, which 

 amount to 58, is before the publick in the Sd volume 

 of the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica, 

 published at Edinburgh ,^^wiiujh I have extracted 

 what appeared to me rn^st vljuafefe ifKthe above PrtB- 



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lecliones, interspersing; some very curious particulars, 

 from unpublished notes of Linmeus, in my possession, 



with a few original reti^^::}m^4]io taken a brief 



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comparative view of Jussieu's system at the end. 



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Having in the present volume more fuliy explained 

 the latter, I shall here reverse the mode of comparison, 

 and place some of the remarks and illustrations in a 

 different light, with a few additional matters. 



The name of each Linnaean Order is, in the fol- 



