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BRITISH HERBAL, 
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Plants that have the flower compofed of Four P&Tars, difpofed in form of @ 
crols, and the feed-veffel sincie, and of am IRREGULAR form. 
of a plain and fimple ftructuré, according to the number of petals in the flower preceding 
that feed-vefiel; from thofe which have only one, by regular ftéps proceeding to fach as 
have it compofed of an irregular and uncertain large number. 
In thefe claffes we have treated of thofe genera whofé feed-veffels have nothing particular in their 
form, nor have been ufed to be diftinguifhed peculiarly by authors undér any diftinétive name: but 
there yet remain fome to whith we are, according to Nature, and the cuftom of botanifts of all time, 
founded on natural diftinctions, to. give a peculiar place. 
What are commonly called the /i liquofe and filiculofe plants, are perfectly diftinguifhed’ from all 
others, and held feparate by writers; and in the fame manner the papilionaceous: yet each of thefé 
claffes confift of plants which have a fingle feed-veffel. Thefe therefore, as alfo the berry-bearing 
W- havé in thepreceding claffes arranged thofe genera which have a fingle capfule for the feeds; 
plants, diftinguifed from all others in the fame manner by the ftructure of their fruit, we are totreat 
of diftinély, a in its feparate clafs ; and between the firft of thefe the filiquofe, and the laft of the 
former regular feries, we are to introduce a fmall clafs, which naturally leads to them. 
The filiquofe are thofe which have the Hower compofed of four petals; difpofed crofs-ways, and 
the feed-veflél a regular pod: thofe of the prefent clafs have the flower in the fame manner, com. 
pofed of four petals fo difpofed, and have for their fruit a feed-veffel which is not a regular pod. 
Linneus has difperfed thefe over his works; and Mr. Ray has committed an overfight, in oe 
of the feveral firft genera, placing them among the plants with five-leaved flowers. 
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Natives of BRITAIN. 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are naturally wild in this country, 
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HE flower is compofed of four petals regularly dlifpofed : the feed-veffel is routid, memibras 
naceous, and full of minute feeds: the cup is comipofed of four little ledves; and remains 
when the flower is fallen. 
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