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ding to the fize and fhape of thQ pod or Jhale \ Sl- 



LICULOSA, fhort; and SiLIQUOSA, lottg. 



The orders in the three next claffes, MonadeU 

 fhia^ Diadelphia^ and Polyadelphia^ are formed 

 from the number of the ftamina, 



Thofeof the Syngenejia clafs are fix : in five of which 

 the plants are Polygamic, and in the remaining 

 one MoNOGAMi^ ; and the difi^erences in the orders 

 of the former, arife from the different ftrudure or 

 fex of the flofcules^ conftituting the whole flower. 



In the 2oth clafs, Gynandria^ the arrangement 

 of the orders arifes from the number of the Jla^ 

 mina^ as in the i6th, 17th, and i8th clafles. 



In the 21ft and 22d clafTes, the Monoecia and 

 Dioecia, the claffical charaders of the foregoing 

 parts of the fyftem are adopted as charadiers of 

 the orders^ as far down as to the Monoecia^ clafs it- 

 felf. Thus the firft order of thofe clalTes contains 

 MoNANDRous plants, and the laft Gynandrous. 



The 23d, the Polygamia clafs, is divided into 

 three orders, as the plants are Monoecious, Dioe- 

 cious, or Trioecious. 



The 24th and lali clafs, Cryptogamia^ is divided 

 into four' orders, containing the Filices, Musci, 

 AhGM^ and Fungi. 



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