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i^nnted at the end of tht Syftema^ and is a iriodfel 

 for Monographers in this way. It is embellifiied 

 with two plates, one reprefenting the plant at large^ 

 the other, the parts of fru6lification feparately. 



Genera Plant arum eorumqii^ CharaSleres nai 

 turales fecundum numerum^ figuram^Jitum^ et proportion 

 nem^ omnium fru5tificationis partium, Lugd. Bat. 1737, 

 8% pp. 384. In this work, which exiubits what 

 LiNN^us has called the natural charaUers of the 

 genera of plants, the claffes are eftablifhed upon 

 the number or fituation^ or both conjointly, of the 

 fiamina^ analogically confidered as the male parts ; 

 and the orders or fubdivifions of the clafles, upon 

 thtpiftils^ analogous to the female parts : and xht 

 genera themfelves from the agreement of all the 

 parts of frudlification compared with each other^ 

 as they agree in number^ figure^ fttuation^ and pro- 

 portion. Hence the Linnaan characters of plants 

 are applicable to any claffical method founded on 

 the parts of fructification alone, in which refped: 

 they have the advantage over thofe of all foregoing 

 writers, and will probably ftand firm, even al- 

 though the clajfical part of the fyftem fhould be fet 

 afide. This is to be confidered as one of the capital 

 of Linnaus^s works. He tells usj that before the 

 publication of the firfl: edition, he had examined the 

 charaders of 8coo flowers. Thofe alone who have 

 been accuftomed to examine plants with a fcientific 

 viewj can judge how arduous this undertaking 

 muft have been, and how great the application 

 thathe mufl" neceflarily have beftowed thereon, and 

 that at an early period of life. Neither can any 

 Others fufficiently admire that accuracy with which 



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