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IS 



the i 



111. 



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 - upright 



dow 



nto. 



us 



> 



pink 



) 



^ » 



iitic mark 

 ny of the 



:ural order 

 mica, ^0, 



ifs gynati' 



below the 



; in one 

 iticofc 0^ 



lateral 



toe 



lco6"' 



rts 



ier 



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va* 



fi 



gties 



V 



Sect. XX. 7 



NATURAL CLASSES 



577 



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wled, capillary 



and 



rletles of its figure, as cylindrical, angular 

 tbefe were again added the divifions of the ftigma, as convolute re- 

 volute, fix.parted, many-parted. And to thefe were again added 



the various 



forms of the ftigma, as globul 



egged 



form, feathery, &c 



end-nicked, 



which are enumerated in the Philofophia 



that chara£leriftic marks 



Botanlca ; there is great reafon to bel , ^ . . 



of all the orders of plants might be deduced and named from fome of 

 thofe circumftances feparately or conjointly ; which might diftin- 



i(h them from each other with greater eafe and certainty, and by 

 marks lefs variable by foil or climate, than by the number alone ; 

 and by rendering them more natural add to the beauty and utility oi 

 the Linnasan fvftem. 



Conclujton 



and thus rather 



Ne^^erthelefs I am well aware of the great general inconvenience 

 of altering fo extenfive a fyftem once eftablifhed, and am forry to fee 

 fome idk efforts to add the claffes already deduced from fituation or 

 proportion to thpfe, which are fimply numerical 

 deteriorate than to improve the prefent fyftem of the great mafter. 



I profefs myfelf incapable to execute the plan, which I have here 

 fuo-gefted, as it would require a moft exad knowledge of the detail of 

 botany, as well as of the outline ; would require many years of un- 

 remitted application, with every opportunity of vifiting botanic gar- 

 dens, or examining dry coUeaions, and infpeding prints and draw- 

 incrs of veo-etables ; and would demand a genius, which few poCIefs, 



ex 



pable of reducing the complex and intricate to the fimple and 



plicit. 



But if the fyftem of the 

 Improved, I am perfuaded, that the plan here propofed of ufing the 



/ 



crreat Linnaeus can ever be intrinfically 



Situations, proportions, or forms, with 



4E 



without the aumbers of 



