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 open, before they fhrink up : but in that time 

 they may have difcharged their farina, fo an- 

 fvvered the intended purpofe, therefore iliouldby 

 no means be feparated from their congeners. 

 The learned Dodor Van Royen^ late profeflbr 

 of Botany at Leyden^ has joined all thefe plants 

 in the fame clafs, titling it Ringentes Gymiioffer^ 

 7nice y he alfo has ranged feveral other genera of 

 Do£tor Linnaeus s fecond clafs, under the firft 

 order of his twelfth clafs, called Ringentes An^ 

 giofpermce. 



Fig. 3. {Triandria) three flamina. 



In the third clafs DocSor Linnceus brings all 

 the liliaceous plants whofe flowers have three 

 ftamina in each, by which they are feparated 

 from their congeners, which are ranged in his 

 fixth clafs 3 therefore it would have approached 

 nearer to a natural method, if thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have but three fl:amina in each, 

 were ranged immediately before thofe whofe 

 flowers have fix, in the fame clafs : and if all 

 the graflTes w^ere joined in one clafs, ranging 

 thofe whofe flowers have but two ftamina 

 firft, and thofe with three following them, and 

 then thofe with fix, &c, it would ftill be nearer 

 nature, than dividing them into fo many dif- 

 ferent claflfes. 



Fig. 4. {Tetrandria) four ftamina. 



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