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into the Depths of the Science. Ls 
te Plants, whofe Clafles we have inveftigated | 
The Stem is woody, round, “Governed with a 
mush brown Bark, and full of Branches. 
Thefe expand every Way with a graceful Irre- 
gularity, unlefs unfkilful Culture maims them: 
and they are round, weak, and green, while } 
young. 
At this Period they < are alfo full of Leaves; | 
but as they grow older they lofe their F refhnefs, 
and the Leaves drop off. | 
Even this is an Article of Beauty i in she Plant, 3 
when well kept; for thefe naked Branches ferve 
as a-Foil to the full-tufted Tops, and younger | 
Shoots. : 2 
The Leaves are of a fingular Form and 
Beauty : they are oblong and large, and are di- 
vided with great Res dane, down to the, middle 
Rib by numerous Incifions. 
Their Colour is a fine bright green, and the 
Tops. of the Shoots are Maite and downy. 
_ This gives a very pleafing Variation at all 
Seafons ; ;. and when. the Flowers _ burft forth. 
they add to it greatly. 
- They decorate the Tops of the Branches in 
numerous {preading Tufts, and their Colour i S21] 
bright yellow. | 
The Seeds follow, but thefe rarely ripen in our | 
Climate. — ) 
‘This is the general ee = the Plant, and 
the Difpofition, of its Flowers: to underftand | 
ats Clafs . and Place in the Linn aan Syftem, 
thefe are to be examined with a great. deal of | 
_Attention. 
We have mse, our, ag foal ac~ 
quainted. with the eafier Diftinétions of this Au- 
thor’ s Method ; and upon the Foundation of that | 
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Knowledge, we now fhall venture to lead him | 
hitherto,. produce their Flowers whether Gants. or 
in Clufters, yet in a regular Manner, one like an- — 
other; or if unlike, (as where they are of diftinét . 
male and female Kinds) they are feparated either | 
by growing upon diftinét Plants, though of the 
fame Species; or upon fo remote Pas of the 
fame Plant, that they raife no Confufion from 
their Mixture. But we here enter on a different 
Affortment. i | 
This Plant, and feveral others to be hereafter 
defcribed, produce Flowers different in ‘their 
internal Structure, but {mall and cluftered to- | 
gether. : ps 
The whole {preading Tuft of F “ier which 
terminates a Branch in this Plant, is formed 
of feveral diftin& little Heats, and each we thefe 
of many Flowers. 
Thefe Heads are fupported fingly upon Di- - 
vifions of the Stalk; and each Head contains 
thefe numerous Flowers in one common ae 
Cup. : | 
Of thefe, fome contain both the male ah female. 
Organs of Generation ; and | others only the 
female. 
- Thefe are not ‘{eattered. at random, one a-. 
mong another : ; but Nature, wonderful i in all. her | 
Works, has placed them regularly. 
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know in what Part.to look for thofe Flowers: 
| which’ being. perfe& afford » = — of i 
a claffical Diftribution. an | 
Bhoke Flowers in nach Based which contain OGtob: 
both Filaments and Styles, chat t3,° Doth tigie 
and female Parts, ‘occupy the middle Part of 
| the Tuft; and thofe which furround them, and 
form the outer Circle of the Head, contain 
only the female Parts or Styles having, no Thr eads 
or Anthere, 
This the Student will not find difficult to, 
underftarid : and to render it more eafy, it will 
be proper he lay before him a flowery Head. of 
any Plant of this Kind, | comparing what he fees 
with what he reads. 
Having made himfelf acquainted with css, 
he underftands the Term Polygamia -the Word 
Linn aus has invented to exprefs this Mixture 
of hermaphrodite and female Flowers, _ 
This Term is founded, like his other; eee 
the Greek, and formed of two: ‘Words, expref- 
fing that the Impregnation of the Seeds is per- 
formed; or, as he phrafes it, the Nuptials are 
celebrated different Ways ;. the. Hermaphrodite 
Flowers in the. A chite.. producing Seeds, ris 
pened by the Dutt. from the Anthere in 
the fame Flowers; and the female Flowers in 
| the Rim ripening | Seed alfe,. from the Impree- 
nation of the Dutt i in the Antherze of the central 
Flowers. 
‘This, though fo complicated and fo effential 
an Article, is but the Diftinétion of an ‘Order 
or Section; not of -a Clafs, © » | 
We have named it here, that the Student may 
Lethim for this Peivols examine one of thefmall 
: Flowers, feparated ‘not from the Edge, but from 
the Difk or Middle of a Head. 
“In this he will 
find five very speci F engigek 3 wich their An- 
thers. —- 
Let him not be Gua to refer the Plant there- 
fore to the pentandrous, ‘or fifth Clafs. 
He will perceive on nearer Examination, that 
the Anthere, or Buttons, do not tremble on 
their Filaments,-as in. moft Flowers, -detached 
and free ; but that they unite together, and form 
a Cylindrick Body. 
- This is the Mark-of the nineteenth Linn 2an 
Clafs, called from this Union Syngenefia; Plants, 
whofe male Parts perform their Office of Im- 
pregnation jointly or together, | 
This Union of the Anthere, therefore, de- 
termines the Clafs of the Plant; and the Stu- 
dent is to remember, that wherever he fees 
them thus united, be their N umber what it will, 
the Plant belongs to the Syngenefeous Tribe. 
Under this claffical Diftinction, the Plants which 
are very numerous are ranged in feveral Orders. 
Of thefe the Polygamous Kind is one. 
This we have thus far explained to the attentive 
Reader; and fhall occafionally in the. fame 
Manner, enter into the Particulars relating to 
the others, when we treat of Syngenefous Plants 
belonging feverally to thofe Sections, 
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