A GENERAL 



SYSTEM OF NATUKE, 



THROUGH THE 



THREE GRAND KINGDOMS 



OF 



ANIMALS, VEGETABLES, AND MINERALS, 



SYSTEMATICALLY DIVIDED 



INTO THEIR SEVERAL 



CLASSES, ORDERS, GENERA, SPECIES, AND VARIETIES^ 



WITH THEIR 



HABITATIONS, MANNERS, ECONOMY, STRUCTURE, 

 AND PECULIARITIES. 



BY SIR CHARLES LINNE: 



Translated from GMELIN, FABRICIUS, WILLDENOW, kc, 



TOGETHER WITH 



Various Modern Arrangements and Corrections, derived from the 



Transactions of the Linnean and other Societies, as well as from the Classical 



Works of Shaw, Thornton, Abbot, Donovan, Sowerby, Latham, Dillwyn, 



Lewin, Martyn, Andrews, Lambert, &c. &c, 



WITH A LIFE OF LINNE^, 



Appropriate Copper-plates, and a Dictionary explanatory of the Terms which 

 occur in the several Departments of Natural History, 



BY WILLIAM TURTON, M. D. 



Fellow of the Linnean Society, Author of the Medical Glossary, &c, vVt 



IN SEVEN VOLUMES. 



Vegetable Kingdom.— VOL, II. 



LONDON : 

 PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO* 



TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, F1NSBURY-SQUARE. 



1806. 



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