214 ; THE VEGETABLE WORLD. 
ae: ( 59. Araliee. ; 
60. Umbellif 
Ranunculacez. 
Ss Papaveracez 
tamens Clas Tuciferse 
Epigynous. se Capparides. 
a 
* Malpighise. 
oe rica. 
uttiferse. 
Among Potypetalons DSM 3 
, ohne ledons are classed the Azaleas, 
J . Vites. and Umbellifere belonged to 
5 ites 
é Geraniz. the twelfth class. 
z ; Malvaceze. The numerous famili 
3| 3 Stamens —_— Class XIII . Magnolize thirteenth class included many 
a 3 Hypogynous. : " ps a i of our favourite flowering 
se 477. ” Menisperma. planis and fruits, as the Ra- 
E E . Berberides. nunculus, e Crete 
2| & iacewe Maples, St. John’s ort, 
Bho hie Oe se ‘ums, : 
. Rutacee. agnol 
The ‘fourteenth contain 4 ice 
3 Seek ao a the Saxifrages, Marigolds,and , 
ft lg Myrtles, the Houseleeks and 
. Saxifrage. . 
. ti. Roses. 
. Portulaceze. 
Stam: . Ficoide. 
ens 4 oe 
Perigynons. Class XIV. = 
. Melastomee. 
. Silicaria. 
2. Rosacezx. 
3. Legurninose. 
. L. oe Be 
\ Sed | a 
$6. Ruphorbize. The fifteenth class inclade 
Diclinis 7. on the Eupherbix, : 
Irregular . , .. Class XV. 4 98. Urti the Nettle Lares oe 
99, base PEE Amen 
100, Conifers. cone bearers. 
Such, then, was the arrangement into which Antoine-Laurent de ee 
Jussieu distributed the twenty thousand plants known to botanists 
in 1789. The hundred orders or families he further subdivided 
into 1,754 genera. That the French botanist had acquainted him- ‘ 
self with the principles of Ray’s classification is unquestionable ; in 
his pedantry. Ray had demonstrated" that rigorous definitions in 
natural history are impossible, and, accepting the decision, Jussiew 
does not attempt to found his fami amily orders or genera on any 
single character belonging to objects so various in their habits and 
organisation as plants. 
During the last forty or fifty years other botanists have at 
tempted various systems of classification, but none so successfully Je a 
as the late Dr. Lindley, whose works are distinguished poi: all 
