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PRiA to DfiCANDRiA ; the plants of each havirig ai 

 many ftamina as the title exprefles. 



The iith clafs is Dodecandria, as there arc 

 no plants yet difcovered which have only eleveii 

 llamina. 



The i2th^ IcosANDRiA ; fuch plants as have 

 about 20 ftamina, or more ; but always arifing 

 from the calyx or corolla^ and not from the recep^ 

 tack. 



The i3thj Polyandria ; fuch as have from 

 twenty to even a thoufand ftamina % but always 

 ariling from the receptacle. 



The 14th clafs, DidynaMia ; fuch as have four 

 ftaminaj two long and two ftiort. The elTential 

 charadter of this clafs does not confift in the hum-^ 

 her of ftamina, otherwife the plants might be re- 

 ferred to the tetrandria clafs \ but, in having two 

 of the ftamina ftiorter than the other, one piftil 

 only, and an irregularly-ftiaped corolla. 



The 1 5thj Tetradynamia plants with^;v fta- 

 mina, four long and two ftiort. 



The 1 6th, Monadelphia; fuch as have the 

 ftamina not diftind at the bafe, but united into 

 one body. 



The 17th, D1ADELPHIA5 fuch as have the fta-- 

 mina united at the bafe into two bodies. 



The 1 8th, Polyadelphia •, fuch as have the 

 ftamina united. at the bafe into feveral bodies. 



The 19th, Syngenesia j fuch as have the anther 

 r^j but not the filaments, coalefcing together, fo 

 as to form a tube or cylinder, through which the 

 piftil is commonly tranfmitted. 



i 4 Thf! 



