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NATURAL CLASSES. 



Sect. XX. 7^ 



fligma to the anthers beneath it, as in henaerocaUis ful 



tawny 



day-lily 



3. Characters might be deduced from the attitude of the ^y 



as 



where it is pendent, that the ftigma may be accommodated to the 



anthers above it, as in many bell-fl 



Secondly, wh 



ned at a confiderable angle to accommodate the ftigma to th 



ed anthers, as in epilobium, willow-herb 



d 



ofa fuperba 



Thirdly, where the ftyle is ereA, to adapt the ftigma to the upright 

 anthers, as in many flowers. 



4. Where the divifions of the ftigma expand, ar 



d bend down 



fome kinds of dianth 



pink 



ward the anthers beneath them, as in 



and in epilobium. 



5. The total abfence of the ftyle might mark an order. 



6. The total abfence of the ftiojma, which is a charadteriftic mark 



of the florets of the ray in the order fruftraneous polygamy of the 



clafs fyngenefia, ^ 



7. Where the ftyle adheres to the ftamina, as in the natural order 



of Linnaeus termed calamariae, as obferved in Philof. Botanica, Ko. 

 102, on the Piftilla, p. 68. 



8. Where the ftyle fupports the ftamina as in the clafs gynan- 



dria. 



9. Where the ftyle appears to exift both above and below the 



germ, as in capparis, euphorbia. 



10. The lateral adhefion of the ftyle to the germ, as in one of 

 the natural orders of Linnaeus, which he has termed fenticofas, or 

 briers, which includes the rofe, rafpberry, ftrawberry, agrimony, al- 

 chemilla, and many others, which might be named from the lateral 

 adhefion of the ftyle to the germ, which Linnaeus aflerts to exift 

 both in the natural order above menti6ned, and in the order Icofan- 

 dria polygyna. Philof. Botan. p. ()"]. 



If to thefe proportions or fituations of the ftyle were added the va- 



rieties 



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