

spared 

 rown. 



ee 



m fhort 

 contaa 



d into a 



, which 

 more 

 ^ure are 



: reafoii- 



e:: fo as 

 ime, la- 

 ftablilh 



e 



) 



f vese 



D 



the fila- 

 ianasus ; 



•rs, if he 

 names ; 



the fit^- 



fia, 



1 



(rene 



e 



.''fubje*^ 



, terr« 



Sect. XX. 4.' 



NATURAL CLASSES. 



57^ 



perhaps have had names affixed to them, denotia^ 



the (ituations 



> 



proportions or forms of their ftamina 



d have thus conftituted 



ffes in the Linnasan fyft 



Th 



for example the natural 



ord 



of graffes might perhaps have had a name 



denoting their 



long capillary fil 



The natural order of srafTes is fo confp 



D 



cuous, 



have ftruck all behold 



they conftitute 



faid 



ly a fixth part of th 



getable kingdom 



efpecially in open 



countries ; 

 but die in w 

 ful, they ar 



the leaves are not eafily broken by bein 



trampled 



becoming yellow and dry 



but what is wonder 



faid to revive in the fp 



and become g 



This natural order of plan 



h 



been divided into cerealia and 



o 



mma 



and srafles 



o 



which however only differ in refped to the 



fize of the feeds, 

 of the fexual fyftem 

 diandria, triandria, 

 hexandria, are e 



It is much difunited by the numerical diftind 



fome graffes belone to the clafs monandria 



G 



d hexandria 



and thofe of the triand 



and 



ther hermaphrodite, or monoecious 



polygamous 



Of thefe a very curious and extenfive table is given in the 



plants. 



Pr^leaiones in Ordin. Natar. a Gifeke Hamburg. 179 



p. 138 



A great part of th 



natural order of caryophyllei, in which th 



mber of the ftamina is very variable 



obferved 



Mr. Milne 



have their filaments alternately attached to the claws of the petals 

 and to the receptacle, and might poffibly have a claffical denomina- 



from that circumftance 



Botan. Die. Art. Caryophyllei 



The five ftamina of the umbellated plants in the clafs of pentan 



dria digynia 



with five petals, two feed 



3, 



above ; which are term- 

 ed umbdlatse in the natural orders of Linnaeus ; as they diverge from 

 each other, might perhaps be called five ftarred, or cinque-pointed 



ftamina from this fituation. 



termed ftellatse by Linn^us, as galium, and afperula ; which belong 



berries, above; 



And in part the natural order of plai 



the clafs tetandria monogynia with one petal 



the four diverging ftamina might perhaps be termed cruciform, as 



they oppofe each other 



And thus thefe natural collections of 



4 D 2 



5 



tables 



