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Plants whofe flower is compofed of Five pETats irregularly difpofed; which’ 
have a@ sINGLE capsuLe fucceeding each flower, and have the leaves 
placed irregularly on the fralks. 
therefore, the obferving fuch fubordinate charaéters as nature has placed between them is 
the more neceflary : had there been fewer of them, the whole might have been difpofed in 
one clafs; and thefe general diftinctions, from the ftructure of the flower, and difpofition of the 
leaves on the flalks, would only have fubdivided them: but nothing perplexes the ftudent fo much 
as too great a multiplicity of objects under the fame head. It is for this reafon I have again fepa- 
rated many of thofe genera which Linnzus had joined together; and, for the fame caufe, this 
affortment of plants is difpofed under three claffés: nature has furnifhed fufficient grounds for the 
diftinétion, and they are fufficiently obvious; the fcience therefore will be rendered more familiar, 
by following this method in her fteps. ; 
"Te plants with five petals in the flower, and a fingle capfule, are very numerous; and, 
Linnzus, in this, as in other cafes often before mentioned, feparates the plants belonging to one. 
into feveral of his moft remote claffes : I fhall be content to name this where needful in the accounts 
of the feveral genera, not to fill too many pages with a criticifm, which, however needful to the 
fervice of the fcience, I never make without concern. 
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Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this kingdom. 
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‘HIE flower is compofed of five petals of unequal fize; one is placed fingly, and the other 
four in two pairs: the fingle petal is broad, fhort, obtufe, and nipp’d at the top; and it runs 
out into a fpur behind. The two fide-petals are oblong and obtufe, and the two others larger and 
broader: this is.the ftrudture of the flower. The feed-veffel is of an oval form, with three flight 
ridges: it is compofed of three valves, and contains only one cell: the cup is fmall, compofed of 
five leaves irregularly difpofed, and remains when the flower is fallen. 
Linneus places this among the /yngenefia, polygamia monogamia; an idle, intricate, and unnatural 
clafs; feparating it from the other genera to which it is properly allied. sata San ae 
