y 



V 



574 



with the plftlllum 



NATURAL CLASSES. 



Sect. XX. 6. 



This has alfo given names to three clafles of th 



Linnaean fyftem, monoecia, dioecia, polygamia. 



Ninthly, the connexion of the anthers, which has given the name 

 to the clafs fyngenefia, which excepting the laft order 

 fully extenfive and natural clafs. 



wond 



To thefe 



of fit 



proportio 



and adhefion, of th 



on 



th 



fummit 



thofc 



filaments, may be added thofe of tKe anth 



which to an attentive obferver may perhaps be as numerous 



of the filaments, and to thefe may again be added the various form 



of the filaments, as capillary, flat, wedgeform 



and s 



rowy 

 Botar 



feathered, &c 



Ifo th 



e 



forms of the anth 



oblon 



to' & 



lobular 



ar- 



> 



£> 



ular, horned. All which are defcribed in the Philofoph 



And 



an adoption of fome of thefe feparately 



in 



conjunaion for clafTical charaders, I fliould hope that new claflifica 



might be difcovered inflead of thofe, which are limply 



cal. 



Which might be more 



lefs fubje6l to variation, 



eafier to be diflinguiflied from each other, and more fimilar in their 

 good or bad qualities ; and might thus add to the great beauty and 

 utility of the prefent wonderful arrangement of fo many thoufand 

 vegetables in the Linnasan fyflem. 



6. The fame obfervations and mode of reafoning are applicable to 



the various orders of the fexual fyftem. Which if the great Lin- 



had fortunately deduced them from the proporti 



th 



chara6leriflic 



, lltuations, 

 figns might 



or forms of the fl:yles and fligmas, 



have been lefs liable to change by foil or climate, and many of th 



( 



orclers have been more natural collections of vesetables, th 



C) 



f 



f 



in thofe 



are, which he has derived limply from their number. 



The uncertainty of the number of piftilla, and the confufion, 

 which might be occalioned by a reliance on it,, was mentioned in 



r 



No. 2 of this fedion 



there 



is a nigella pentagyna. 



and a nigella 



decagyna; there is an hypericum floribus pcntagynis, trigynis, 



and digynis ; and in the whole order of fruftraneous polygamy in 



the 



K 



