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pointals, or all female, when they have pointals 

 withon.t (lamina. 



The ftamina are either detached from each 

 other, or united together by one of their parts, 

 as alfo fometimes with the pointal. 



The ftamina are not of equal length, or 

 there are conftandy a certain number which 

 are inorter than the reft. 



The clafles of plants which are eftabliflied 

 upon the principles of the fexes, are diftin- 

 guifhed according to the number, proportion, 

 and the fituation of the ftamina in their 

 flowers. 



The plants which have hermaphrodite flowers. 



Fig. I. [Mo72andria) with one ftamen. 



Fig. 2. [Diajidria) two ftamina. 



In this clafs the learned author has ranged 

 feveral genera, which would with greater pro- 

 priety come in his fourteenth clafs, intituled 

 Didynamia-, the flowers and fructification a- 

 greeing in every refped with thofe of the four- 

 teenth clafs, excepting the number of their fta- 

 mina, which in thofe of this fecond clafs have 

 but two, and the other have four, tv/o long and 

 two fliort: however, in Salvia there are general- 

 ly four ftamina, two of which are of (hort dura- 

 tion, feldom laftingone day after the flower is 



open. 



