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NATURAL CLASSES 



Sect. XX. r. 



SECT 



JLAN FOR DISPOSING PART OF THE VEGETABLE SYSTEM OP LINNEUS 



INTO MORE NATURAL CLASSES AND ORDERS. 



i. The daffes of plants dijiingutjhed by the proportion or Situation of the fiamina are 

 more natural than thoje difiinguifhed by their numbers. Many Linnean dajjes 

 thus difiinguifhed. Many of the orders are natural dafjifications. Ufe of natural 



•lajje 



The fitiiation and proportion of the/exual organs are lejs liable 

 than their numbers. Great variation in refpeSl to number of the fi 



From luxuriant growth 



[pedes have but half the number 



Others have 



part of them without anthers. The number ofpiflilla varies in different Jpe dies of 

 the fame genus. Progrefs of nature to greater perfection. Of the dafs Syngenef 



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Immutable parts difcovered by reafoning as well as by objt 



Filaments 



of Meadia unchangeable^ and of hemerocalis fulva, nigella^ collinfoniayjparttum 



natural orders might become claffes. As the grajfe 



and the umbellate 



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and flellata. Forms of the filament Sj and of the anthers , as well as their fit na- 

 tions j lefs variable than their numbers. 5 . Claffic characters. From fhort and 

 long filaments. From their unequal heights. From their different infer tions. From 



their rejpe5iivefit. 



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From their adhefions to each other. Or to the corol^ 



jlyle. From their exi/tence in different fli 



From the connexion of the 



thersy or from the forms of the filaments and anthers. 6. Uncertainty of the 



her of pifiilla. Their proportions and fig 



lefs variable. And would defi\ 



natural orders. 7. Characters of orders from the length of the fi^yh 



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curvature of it. The attitudes of it. Divifions of the fligma. Ahjenceof theftigma 



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Adhefions of the Jlyle. 8 . Conclufion, 



the 



L Often as I have admired the claffification of vegetables by 

 great Linneus deduced from their fexual organs of reprodudtion, 



fome 



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