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and to be feparated from it with. difScuIty, 



ALGjE, one of the feven families, or 

 tribes, in the vegetable kingdom, defined by 

 Linnxus to be fuch as have their root, leaves, 

 and caudex all i'h 6ne^ compi-ehending fea- 

 weeds, and fome other aquatic , plants, Jn 

 Tournefort they conftitute the fecond genus 

 of the 2d fe£llon of clafs xvii. and ai'e divided 

 into nine fpecies. In the Syjiema Nature of 

 Linnseus they conflitiite the third order in the 

 clafs Cryptoga})iia, are divided into terre/ires, and 

 aquatic^, the firft comprehending eight genera, 

 and the latter fix. 



Algcs, an order of plants in the Fragmcnta mt' 

 • thocli naturalis of Linnsus. 



ALTERNATlVvE petiohres Gemnics (for al- 

 ierna) alternate ; as in the Snli::, Spiraa, Gent- 

 Jia, Solaman, Ilix^ yuglans, &c. 



Alternatives Jliptilacees Gemma, as in the Popu^ 

 lusy THia, Ulmus, ^tercus, kc. 



Alternatlva Jiipulaceo-pet'iolares Gemma:, as in 

 the Sorbus, Oai^gus, Prunus, &c. 



ALTERNI Rami, Folia; alternate branches, 

 leaves, ^c. oppofed to oppofiti ; growing not 

 oppolite to each other, cum unum pojl alterum 

 tanqtiam per gradus exit. 



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