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NATURAL CLASSES. Sect.XX.j, 



acquire a claffical denomination from the fituatlons 

 of their flamina, or perhaps from the form of their filaments or 

 anthers. 



To thefe fituations and proportions of the flamina, with many 

 others, might be added the form of the filaments, as capillary, flat^ 

 wedgeforro, fpiral, aw led ; and alfo the forms and fituations of ths 



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anthers, as globular,, oblong, arrowy, angular, horned. Which 

 may be feen in the Philofophia Botanica of Linnaeus, p. 65 ; or a 

 tranflation of them in Miln's Botanical Di6lionary, under the titles 

 of filament and anther. All which, I fuppofe, are much lefs varir 

 able by foil or climate, than the numbers of their refpedtive fexual 

 organs, and would in the hands of an ingenious botanifi:. form more 

 natural claflifications. 



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Clafi3cal chara£lers might perhaps be taken from the length of 



the filaments compared to that of th 



ftyl 



with fome oth 



mitant circumftances 



as 



firfl 



than the %1 



here they are fomewhat fh 



the pendent bell-flowers of hly, frit 



pan 



Secondly where the filaments are more than twice as fliort 



th 



fiyl 



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as in mead 



yclamen, folanum, bora 



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fufch 



Or thirdly where the filaments are more than twice as long as th 



ftyl 



d in the natural order of grafles 



of th 



Secondly,, the unequal heights of the filaments at the firfi: open 



In many flowers the inferior fet of flam 



o 



the fligma, when the high 



;r fet have difcharged their poll 

 thefe fituations of the flamina may alfo be added their numbe 



fe up 



To 



as ia 



the two very natural clafles of L 



tradvnamia 



the didynamia and th 



One of thefe might be termed two higher than two 



the other four higher than two 



t) 



fj 



To which might perhaps be added 

 third clafs, of many higher' than many ;, as fix above-fix in lithrum 



f 



rm, five above five in lychnis 



Thirdly,, the different infertions of th 



caly 



filament 



which principally diflinguifhes the clafs icofand 



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firfl on th 

 ia. of Lin 



naeus 



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