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Fig. 5. {Tentandria) five ftamina. 



Fig. 6. [Hcxandria) fix ftamina. 



Fig. 7. {Heptandrid) feven flamina. 



Fig. 8. [p^andria) eight ftamina. 



Fig. 9. {Enneandrici) nine ftamina. 



In the ninth clafs is ranged Lauriis^ where- 

 as all the different plants ranged under that 

 generical title, have male flowers upon different 

 plants, from thofe which produce fruit, fo 

 with more propriety (hould be placed in the 

 twenty-fecond clafs, titled Dicecia 3 but as the 

 learned author may not have had opportuni- 

 ties of feeing the frefli flowers of many ofthefe 

 plants, fo he has been obliged to take his cha- 

 radters either from dried famples, or from im- 

 perfedt defcriptions, fo may have been eafily 

 led into thefe miftakes. 



There are alfo in fome of his other claffes the 

 like miftakes with thofe before mentioned, 

 which may have -happened from the fame 

 caufes ; however, upon the whole, there is 

 certainly great merit due to this author for his 

 difcoveries. 



Fig. 10. [Decandria] ten ftamina. 



Fig. II. [Dodecandria) iwtXvc 9i^mim, 



Fig, 12. {Icofandria) when there are more 



than twelve, and thefe are faftened 



to the interior part of the flower 



cup, and not to the receptaculum. 



Fig. 13. 



