28 ORDERS. 



Each of the Linnean Classes is subdivided 

 into certain Orders, 



Those of the first thirteen Classes, depend 

 upon the number of the Pistils. 



Order 1. Monogynia, one Pistil, fig. 1, pi. 20 : ex. 



Honeysuckle, (Lonicera.) 



2. T)igynia, two pistils, fig. 2 : ex. Grasses 



3. Trigynia^ three pistils, fig. 3 : ex. 



Stichwort, (Stellaria.) 



4. Tetragynia, four pistils, fig. 4 : ex. 



Moschatell, (Adoxa.) 



5. Pentagynia, five pistils, fig. 5 : ex. 



Wood-sorrel, (Oxalis.) 



6. Hexagynia, sixpistils,fig. 6 : ex. Flow- 



ering-rush, (Butomus.) 



7. Heptagynia, seven pistils, fig. 7 : ex. 



Septas. 



8. Decagynia, ten pistils, fig. 8 : ex. Phy- 



tolacca. 



9. Dodecagynia, about twelve pistils, fig. 9. 



ex. House-leek, (Semper- 

 vivum.) 

 10. Polygynia, numerous pistils, fig. 10: 

 ex Ranunculus. 



The two orders of the fourteenth class, (Didynamia) 

 are founded upon the absence or presence of the 

 Pericarp. 



