LESSON 33.] ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM OF LINN^US. 



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575. The twenty-four classes of Linnaeus were founded upon 

 something about tlie stamens. The following is an analysis of 

 them. The first great division is into two great series, the Phce- 

 nogamous and the Gryptogamotis, the same as in the Natural System. 

 The first of these is divided into those flowers which have the sta- 

 mens in the same flower with the pistils, and those which have not ;' 

 and these again are subdivided, as is shown in the following tabular 

 view. 



Series I. PH-iENOGAMIA ; plants with stamens and pistils, i. e. with real 

 flowers. 

 1. Stamens in the same flower as the pistils ; 

 # Not united with them, 

 1- Nor with one another. 



•M- Of equal length if either 6 or 4 in number. 



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