BY DR. DERHAM. 



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The reason of Mr. Ray's setting about this work was 

 this. He had for some years much signaUzed his skill in 



Tlie following table, taken from the second edition of his ' Methodus,' pub- 

 lished in 1703, will give an outline of liis system : — 



Herbaceous"! 

 plants and un- [imperfect or without vi- 

 dershrubs not jsible flowers . 

 bearing buds. J 



Perfect or flowering- 

 plants : — 

 Dicotyledones 

 Plower compound . 



Flower simple : — 

 With 1 naked seed 

 With 2 naked seeds 



With 4 naked seeds 



With many naked seeds 

 Seeds coated with pulp . 



In several distinct vessels 

 In a single vessel . 



Monocotyledones, or 



grass-leaved : — 

 Bearing flowers 

 Without proper flowers 



Submarine plants. 

 Funguses. 

 Mosses. 

 Capillary. 



5. Stamineous, i. e. Apetalous. 



6. Planipetalous, milky. 



7. Discoid with pappus seed. 



8. Corymbiferous. 



9. Capitale. 



10. Monospermous. 



11. Umbelliferous. 



12. Stellate. 



13. Rough-leaved. 



14. Verticillate. 



15. Polyspermous. 



16. Pomiferous. 



17. Bacciferous. 



18. Multisfliquous. 



19 . Monopetalous and dipetalous 



plants. 



20. Siliquose. 



21. Leguminose. 



22. Pentapelatous. 



23. Bulbous or not bulbous. 



24. Stamineous grasses. 



25. Anomalous plants. 



Trees or shrubs ) Monocotyledones : with 

 bearing buds. ] arundinaceous leaves 26. Palms 

 Dicotyledones : — 



Flowers remote from fruit 27. Coniferous. 

 (Monoecious or dioecious) 28. Not coniferous. 



Flowers contiguous 



fruit : — 

 Fruit . 



to 



. 29. Umbilicated. 



30. Not umbilicated. 



31. Dry, not siHquose. 



32. Siliquose. 

 Flower . . .33. Papilionaceous. 



34. Anomalous plants. 

 " This arrangement was too far in advance of the knowledge of tlie day, and 

 the consequence was that it was little appreciated or adopted by his contem- 



