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;red, &c. 

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 lilofophia 



ely or in 



claffifica- 

 numerl- 



variation 



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 eauty and 

 thoufand 



jlicable to 

 rreat Lin- 



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fituations 

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of the 

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11 



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Scet. XX. 





NATURAL CLASSES. 



the clafs fyngeiiefia the florets of the ray are furniaied with a 



575 

 flyle 



\_ 



d no ftisma 



o 



the funfl 



The flowers of the polyc 

 tandria, and its order trigyn 

 tainty of the number of the 



hof^ 



e 



ffical charader is oc 



affords many inftances of th 



fe 



organs 



o 



both in refpecl to th 



flamina and pift 



Th 



th 



fpecies 4, 5, 6, 7, poflefs b 



five 



ftamina in 



ach 



th 



es 8, 9 



10 



h 



ach 



ftamina, and the eleventh fpecies has feven flamina 



f them fix 

 And laftly the 



h 



each of them but two pift 



fpecies 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, n, 12, 

 and all the refl: three piftilla. 



From thefe and other innumerable inftances there is reafo 



9 



clud 



that the proportion 



I- - ' 



nd forms of the ftyle and 



ftigma, to which might b 



fituations, i 



added their number conjointly 



would 



made eflential charaaers for the orders, which would have been 



lefs variable than thofe derived only from the number of them, and 

 would have rendered them more natural colledions. 



; orders misht be deduced firft from the 



7. The charaders of the 

 len^^th of the ftyle compared with that of the filament 

 the ftyle is more than twice 

 cyclamen, folanum, fufchi; 



as 



o 



the filaments 



J whe 



•i 



mead 



Secondly, where the ftyle is about 



one third longer than the filaments, as in lilium, fritillaria, cam 



panula, and many other bell-flower 

 very ftiort compared to the filaments 



Thirdly, where the ftyl 

 in poppies. 



2. 



The chara6ters of the orders might be deduced from th 



the ftyle 



As firft, where th 



ftyl 



bends into a curve 



over the anthers to bring the ftigma into contad with them, as iti 

 nigella, . devil in the bufli. Secondly, where the ftyle bends into a 

 circle like a french-horn to accommodate the ftigma to two fets of 

 ftamina in fucceflion, firft th^ lower 



> 



and then the hish 



o 



a-^ 



m 



fpartium fcoparium, common broom. Thirdly, wh 



th 



ftyl 



crooked in the middle of 



7 



makins: a kind of 



•6^«5 



lower the 



ftigma 



