PART THIRD. 



CHAPTER I. 



OF VEGETABLES, AND THEIR KINDS, 



Vegetables are divisible into the seven families, of tribes, 

 as follows : 



1. Fungi, mushrooms. 



2. Alce, flags; whose root, leaf, and stem are all one, 



3. Muse i, mosses; whose antherse have no filaments, and are 

 placed at a distance from the female flower; and whose seeds 

 also want their proper tunic and cotyledons. 



4. Filices, ferns; whose fructification is on the back of the 

 frondes*. 



5. Gramina, grassesf; which have simple leaves, a jointed 

 culm or stem, a glumose calyx, and a single seed. 



* Leaves of the ferns and palms so called ; see the explanation of the term 

 frons, in Chap. IV. Author. 



f This tribe includes the various sorts of corn a3 well as the grasses. Author. 



