162 SYSTEMATIC ARRANGEMENT OF PLANTS. 



Second Linncean Lesson. 



After mastering the preceding lesson by Lamouroux, 

 the beginner will be prepared to go a little more in 

 detail into the system of Linnaeus, as I shall now 

 sketch it out. 



Taking plants in general, with respect to their 

 flowering, they are separated into two great divisions, 

 plants with apparent l flowers, which belong to the 

 first twenty-three classes of Linnaeus ; and plants with 

 non-apparent flowers 2 , which belong to his twenty- 

 fourth class. 



1. Flowers with Stamens of a fixed number, and 

 equal in length. 



FIRST CLASS*. 



Flowers with only one stamen. If they 

 have one pistil, as mare's tail, they are of the 

 first order t; if two pistils, they are of the 

 second order J. 



(1) In Latin, Phanerogamia, or Plantee phcenogamicte . 



(2) In Latin, Planta cryptogamicce. 



* In Latin, Monandria. t In Latin, Monogynia. 



t In Latin, Digynia. 



