VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



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ORDERS are taken from the Females or Piftils, as clafTes from the 

 Males or Stamens; but in the clafs of Connected Males the Orders 

 differ from others, as in 



ONE FEMALE, Two Females, Three Females, &c. according to 

 the number of Piftils. 



The number of the p'ljiil is reckoned from the Bafe of thejlylc •, hut f 

 there is nojfyle, the calculation is made from the number of Stigmas. 



EQUAL POLYGAMY, confifts of many marriages with promif- 

 cuous intercourfe. 



That is of many florets furnijhed withflamc^is andpijlilsy 



The flowers ofthefe are vulgarly called Flofculous. 



SPURIOUS POLYGAMY, where the beds of the married occupy 

 the difk, and thofe of the concubines the circumference. 



That is, the hermaphrodite florets occupy the difi^ and the female 

 florets without flamens furround the border^ and that in three manners: 



{ {a) SUPERFLUOUS POLYGAMY, when the married females 

 are fertile, and thence the concubines fuperfiuous. 



That xSywhen the hermaphrodite flovjers of the d.iflz are furnijhed 

 vjith ftigmas^ and produce fleds \ arid the female flowers alfoy tvhich 

 conflitue the circumference^ produce jeeds likeivfc. 



(b) FRUSTRANEOUS POLYGAMY, when the married fe- 

 males are fertile, and the Concubines barren. 



That is, zvhen the hermaphrodite fl.owers of the dijk are furnijhed 

 tvith afligma^ and produce feeds ; but the fl.orcts which conflltute the 

 circumference^ having nofligma produce no feeds. 



(0 NECESSARY POLYGAMY, when the married females 

 are barren, and the concubines fertile. 



That is, when the hermaphrodite flotvers from defe5i ofthefligma 

 of the pflil-t produce nojeed ; but thefe?nalefl.DZUcrs in the circumfe- 

 rence produce perfe6i feeds . 



(e) SEPARATE POLYGAMY, when m.any beds are fo united 

 that they conftltute one comm.on bed. 



That is, when many -flower-bearing calyxes are contamed in one 

 common calyx^ fo as to cpnjlitute one flower. 



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