V 



568 



NATURAL CLASSES. 



Sect, XX. 3 



merou 



fep 



■ 



themfelves from hermaphrod 



flo 



fexual 



as in 



th 



{Tes of monoecia and dioecia 



and all of 



them finally, after a long procefs of a 

 nandria and monogynia of thofe claffe 



tables may be 



, become of the orders mo 

 whilfl nevy kinds of vege 



fim 



pro 



re 



fs from lefs to 



perfe(5l 



So in animals, the lefs perfea feem to poffefs organs for a moi 



m 



reprodudl 



as fifli and infefts. Such would feem to be 



IV per- 



power 



fs 



the perpetual progrefs of all organized being from 1( 

 fedion exiftins from the beginning of time to the end of 



1 



mpreffed on nature by the great Father of 



Th 



th 



fs fvn^enefia, the tendency of thefe vegetabl 



Ihus in the clais lyngenena, tnc icuucin._y ui tw^x^ .^^^...^...^ 

 from more numerous to a more fimple organization for the purpofe of 



produd 



wonderfully confp 



In th 



rd 



polygamia 



aequ 



all the florets are furniflied with male and female org 



In the order polygamia fuperflua, the floret 



male and fem 



C5 



thofe 



in 



th 



mfere 



h 



ID 



nd of thofe fome have loft the corol of the floret 



have both. 

 e only fe- 



In 



the order polygamia frufl:ranea the florets in the centre pofTefs both 



male and female 



o 



th 



though 



at th 



5, b 

 fam 



thofe 



in 



th 



mference h 



time the corols of thofe florets remain 



And laftly, in th 



1 



ord 



polygamia neceffaria the central florets 



fimply male florets, and thofe 



the 



umference Amply fem 



d thus approach to the clafs of monoecia 



ones ; ai 



and female organs in feparate florets ; and 



may 



having the male 

 [1 procefs of time 



ft in feparate flowers 



fexes of 



more 



and afterwards in feparate plants, like th 

 perfedt an 



mais 



Something flmilar to th 



of the clafs 



feems already to have occurred in the plant phytolacc 

 decandria decagynia ; which pofl^efles one fpecies with twenty males 

 another with ten, another with only eight males and eight females 

 and laftly one of the clafs dioecia, or two 



houfes 





In many flowers fome circumftances of the fituations or pro 



portions or forms of the filaments or anthers may be fhewn, by 



4 



fonmg 



