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passages between, and another to describe the characters of two groups. I know them 
very well, and how the one ought to be joined to the other. One of our former pupils, 
F : : 
ell you one thing,—if I publish a second edition of my book, I shall give a second 
arrangement of my orders. 
‘Ina letter to the same botanist, we find the following passage : 
“You ask me for the characters of my orders. My dear Giseke, I 
assure you that I know not how to give them.” 
Vite / Af 
ei y, 4/ we / Vy ef 
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Jit @ tiv 
Fig 289.—Mugnol. 
DM. Magnol, Professor of Botany to the School of Medicine, in 
his work entitled « Prodromus Historiz Generalis Plantarum,” 
