Auguft. which is fix’d a flender Button. 
Beneath the Cup is plac’d the Rudiment of 
the Seed-veffel or Fruit: this while the Flower 
continues is roundifh and rough, but fmall. After 
that is fallen, it grows larger; the Cup remains 
upon it in a kind of cede and the Seeds i 
contain’d in it are roundifh and hard. 
This Plant.-belongs to the firft Clafs, in cies 
Method of oe eS the Title of which is 
This we fhall here explain. 
Mon aANDRIA, 
The Syftem of that Author is founded upon - 
the internal Parts of the Flowers of Plants; and 
his Clafles are. eftablifhed upon the Number 
and Difpofition of thofe Filaments or Threads, 
which are their principal Part. 
To underftand this perfealy, let the Reader | 
lay before him a common Flower of almott any 
Kind: he will find thefe feparate and diftiné& 
Parts: 1. The Cup: 2. The Body of the Flower 
_confifting of one or more Leaves, call’d Petals; 
and, 3. One or more Filaments or Threads, 
-crown’d with Buttons, call’d Anthere. 
There are particular Plants, whofe Flower 
wants one or other of the firft nam’d Parts; and 
- fome in which the Anthere have no Filaments 
to fupport them; but thefe are particular In- 
ftances, and will be explain’d in their Place: 
‘What we have here nam’d, is the general Struc- 
ture of a Flower. 
In order to underftand: the Suftenn of Lin- | 
nzzus, the Threads or Filaments, with their | 
Buttons, or Anthergz, are to be counted and exa- 
mined; for according to their Number firft, and 
afterwards to their Difpofition, he has arrane’d 
Let us 
the Plants under his diftinét Claffes. 
refer this to the prefent Inftance. On examin- 
ing the internal Part of the Cannacorus Flower, 
we find one Filament with its Button. The firft 
Clafs of Linnaus comprehends thofe Plants 
which have Flowers with a fingle Filament: 
‘Therefore this is one of this Clafs. 
The Term by which he expreffes it Monan- 
pRIA, is form’d of two Greek Words: 
of which is, Plants in whofe Flower there is only 
one Male Part: the Nature and Office of the 
Filament or Stamen, withi its Button, is denoted 
by that Expreffion. 
Thus the Reader underftands what is meant | 
by the firft Clafs of Linnaus, and has made > 
a fair Step into the Syftem of Botany eftablithed | 
by that Author. Whatever other Plant he ob- 
ferves to have only one Filament, or Button, in 
the Flower, he will be able to ey belongs to 
the MonanpRIa. 
We fhall as familiarly: lead hig to the Charac- 
ters of the other Claffes: and when he knows as 
much of them, as he already does of this, he 
will have. mafter’d the firft great Article of 
this famous Syftem. 
Now the Character of the firft Clafs is ates 
ftood, the Source of that Author’s fubordinate 
Diftinction into Sections, is to be explain’d; and 
this will be found as eafy as the former, from 
what will be feen in the fame common Flower, 
we have defired fhould be examined, 
Within or among the Threads, in its Centre, 
there will be perceiv’d.a Part or Parts different 
‘the Senfe 
| Words will afterwards explain the others : 
A GOMPLEAT BODY 
from them in Form, and deftitute of that An- Augutt. 
thera or Button which is fixed'to their Top. 
This Part is fometimes fingle ; fometimes there 
are feveral, Thefe are called the Style or Styles 
of the Flower: and they are fometimes fimple, 
all the Way fometimes fplit or divided. 
As the Clafs is eftablithed upon the Number 
Or Threads or Filaments, the Section is deter 
mined by that of the Styles or their Divifion: 
| as the Nature of the Filaments is to perform the 
Office of Male Parts in the Plant, thefe ftdhd in 
the Place of Female. They receive a Duft from 
the Anthere, which they deliver down to the 
Rudiment of the Seed, for its Impregnation. | 
From this Office of the Styles, the Se@tion ig 
nami’d, according to their Number: when the 
Style is only one, the Term is Monoeynias 
this is alfo formed of two Grezx Words, and | 
their Signification is, that the Plant has but one — 
Female Part in the Flower. — 
Upon again examining the Flower of the Can- 
nacorus, we fhall findin it, befidethe fingle Fi- 
lament, a fingle Style: it is fat, and grows to the 
Filament. ‘This fhews, that Cann aconus, or 
properly Canna, is one of the Monanprta, 
Mownoeynia, or one of the firft SeGtion and firft 
Clafs of Linnaus. | 
~ We imagine the Reader will find no ‘Diff. ) 
culty in cotttardheating the Senfe of thefe two 
Words thus explained, and the Structure of this 
Flower. When he underftands this, he is Mafter 
| of Linn avs’ sfirftClafs ; for there is nothing more. : 
Thus eafily do Difficulties vanifh, when a pro- 
per Method of Explanation is laid down: and 
as the fucceeding Clafies in general depend upon 
the fame Principle, they will be underitood with — 
more Eafe than the firft. 
The Canna is a Native of Asta; Arrica, 
and the hotter Petts of America: where it 
produces Abundance of Flowers. in Autumn. | 
The Culture of the Canna. 
| ‘The Seeds are to be fown in Spring, upon a 
common hot Bed. When the Plants have crown 
toa little Strength, they mutt be tranfplanted into 
anotherhot Bed; and thence when large and {trong 
removedinto Pots. Thefe are to be fet in Places not 
‘too much expofed tothe Sun, though fcreen’d from 
Cold, and there they will live till Agta. they are 
then to be remov’d to the Green-houfe, thereto be 
preferv’d during Winter ; and in the End of May ~ 
_ they may be planted in good Earth, upon a warm 
Border: where noe will rife to Flower in their 
full Luftre. | | 
Some are fond of making this Plant flowerthe | 
| firft Year, ‘butit is then weak. The F lowers are 
neither fo large or numerous, as they will be when 
the firftSeafon has pafs’d before their Appearance. 
There are other Species of Cannacor US, 
which we fhall enumerate in a fucceeding Part 
of our Work ; and we thallobfervethe the Gourt: 
in all other Inftances. One Plant of a Kind is 
all we fhall treat in each Number, till we have 
gone through the Culture of the whole Series. Few 
_they 
would here perplex the Student, and take u p thofe 
Pages devoted to the other Labours of Time. 
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