308 CHAPTER 23. 
11. Gakai^^ et Verti^ 13. Baccifera, 
cillatiC, 14. Capillar es, 
12. Multifiliqu^y et 15. AnomaU\ 
Multicapfularcs, 
From an infpeSion of this table, it ap- 
pears, that his method is not uniformly 
founded on the fruit ; in faft, much lefs fo 
than that of CtSSalpinus i but on the 
fruit and the habit conjointly 5 iince the 
Corymhifcray Umbellifer^y and Galeatce^ with 
the VerticiUatcE^ arife from the difpofition 
of the flower ; the Scandentes, Cubniferc^y 
and Capillares^ from the habit : the feventh 
clafs from the qualities partly, and partly 
from the feed. Hence we fee, that only 
half the clalTes are founded on the fruit ; 
the fifteenth being truly an Iieteroclite 
affembla^e. His method would have ao- 
proached much nearer to perfedtion, on his 
own principles, had he enlarged the num- 
ber of his clafles ; fince, in feveral inftances, 
they embrace natural orders, much too dif- 
tind: to be ranged together. The orders, 
or fubdivifions of the clafles, are, in fomc 
inftances, grounded on differences in the 
feed- 
