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Plants whofe flower confifls of a stncun PETAL of an irregular form, and 
whofe feeds are contained in a SINGLE CAPSULE, 
all others : yet, Linnaeus, who has for fome years led the botanical ftudents according to 
his fancy, has difpofed the plants of which it confifts in various and very diftant parts of 
his works: fome of them are feparated from others by eleven intermediate claffes, and by almoft fix 
hundred genera, 
They all perfeétly agree in thofe two effential and obvious charagters, that the fower confifts of 
a fingle petal, and the feeds are enclofed in a fingle capfule. : 
They differ from thofe of the laft clafs in that the flower is of an irregular form. As in thofe ie 
is plain and regular; in thefe it is, for the moft part, of the labiated kind, or of a form nearly 
approaching to that ftruéture. 
Mr. Ray faw this diftinétion between the plants of the prefent, and thofe of the preceding clafs, 
~ but he has arranged them only under two divifions of the fame clafs, making them effentially agree ; 
this is a practice not liable to the cenfure of error; though the keeping them diftin@ is much more 
ufeful, 
Though the flowers in. the plants of this clafs agree, in a great meafure, with thofe of the labiated 
kind, yet the diftinGtion is very greatin the difpofition of the feeds : thefe in the labiated plants, properly 
fo called, ftand naked in the cup of the flower; and in thofe of this genus they have a regular capfule. 
‘This is a fufficient diftin@tion in nature; yet, Linnaeus, who does not regard either the fhape of 
the flower or condition of the feeds as a claffical character, but builds that divifion upon the num- 
ber and difpofition of the filaments'or threads in the flower,’ places the Sreater part of thefe plants in 
the fame clafs with the labiated kind 5 as.the Zinaria, pedicularis, and the reft;, and makes their 
having a capfule for the feeds only a: fubordinate diftin@ion, as Mr. Ray does the peculiar thape 
of the flower: others of them, as- the pinguicula and lentibularia, he places among his diandyia « tha 
the gladiolus lacuftris, feparately from all the reft, among his /yygenefia monogamia, ; ; 
T fave the ftudent the labour of turning to different parts of a work to feck for plants of the 
fame kind ; and fhall keep them together in his memory, by placing them together in the plates, 
“The intent of this work is to render the ftudy of plants familiar, As none will be fu ofed t 
underftand the fcience, while the prefent fafhion lafts, who is not able to converfe Gee in ae 
language of Linneus, I thall occafionally explain his terms: and as none has perplexed Ha 
ftudy fo much by anew method as this author, I fhall teach the reader at once to underftand it, and 
neglect it. 3 
A eve like the preceding, is a clafs perfectly and obvioufly diftinguifhed by nature from 
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