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Many FLOWERS aflembled ina ComMoN CUP, 
Having the CHIVES diftind. 
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PLAN TS with many ies F Lowers, forming a Head or Ball ; fur- 
rounded by a common Cup ; each FLoweErR having alfo its own diftiné 
Cup, and fimple FoorsT aux. | 
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Of the Place of Accrecare Pants in an artificial, and a natural Method. 
ftruction of that head, or ball of Flowers, which conftitutes its character : not only to 
-eftablith with certainty its proper form; but to diftinguith it precifely from the fout 
Claffes with affembled Florets which have gone before, and that.of the umbrella’d or um-_ 
belliferous Plants, which follows. Thofe four agree in one great character, of having many 
Florets collected together to form one Flower : The umbelliferous Clafs is diftinguifhed 
from them, by having each Flower, though little, perfect and entire, and placed alone | 
upon its feparate Footftalk. 
|: will be neceffary to explain very diftin@lly the marks of this Clafs ; and the con-_ 3 
Ir would feem as if thefe laft had no conneétion with, or relation to the formers but 
thus far the natural and artificial methods agree, for thefe Claffes in both (with the inter- 
riamee of this) properly follow one another ; and nature never lofes the progreffion. 
Ir is true there is no immediate conneétion between the four Claffes of Plants, whofe ge- 
neral Flower is compofed of many affembled Florets, and the Clafs of umbelliferous or um~ 
brella’d Plants; but this is placed between them: This gives that connection which they 
want with one another, and with this, they regularly conftitute fix fucceeding arrangements 
of Plants ; each truly feparate i in its character, yet all united by their plain relation. 
Tuis is not a place for entering at large upon the courfe of nature in the Vegetable chain ; 
that will be fhewn when we fhall come to oe detail of Plants in a natiral method ; in which 
there 
