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Plants whofe flower confifts of stverat reTais*, with NUMEROUS THREADS 
are few, large, and plain. 
in the centre, and is followed by a clufter of NAKED SEEDS, 
ASHIS is a clafs diftinguifhed by natural and obvious charagters ; and is proper for the” 
We ftudent’s firft confideration, becaufe the flowers and feeds are confpicuous, and the parts 
» Mr. Ray eftablifhed it'as a clafs; and the regard he has fhewn to the order of nature, 
” in keeping thefe plants together, is a proof that his method, tho’ plain and fimple, is in 
fome inftances, better founded than thofe built upon fmaller parts, and nicer diftinGtions. 
Nature has joined no plants fo plainly together as thofe which conftitute this clafs: yet Morifon, 
Tournefort, and. others, have diftributed them in various parts of their works; and Linneus has 
united the greater part of them with many other plants not properly ally’d to them, under the 
denomination of polyandria; a clafs altogether artificial, having but a miftaken foundation in 
‘nature. 
This author in the feventh fection includes, among what he calls polyandria polygynia, the crow- 
Foot, which bears its feeds naked, and the hellebore, which has them included in pods, 
“Nature feparates thefe plants, tho’ Linnaeus joins them. ‘ 
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By ede 
Natives of BRITAIN. 
HIS feries includes all thofe genera, of 
which one or more fpecies are natives of 
eur country. The fecond comprehends thofe 
only of which we have none naturally wild. 
To prevent the feparation of thofe plants 
which nature has joined in form, tho’ divided 
in their place of growth, we fhall, under each 
of the Britith genera, after defcribing thofe fpe- 
cies which are natives here, add fuch as, for their 
ufe or beauty, have obtained a place in our gar- 
dens. But to prevent confufion or error, we 
fhall there arrange the fpecies diftinétly under two, 
divifions, as we have here diftributed the generay 
native, and foreign, under two /eries. . 
® The leaves which compofe a flower are called petals, 
Ned, 
B GENUS. 
