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rangements ufed before their time, by Do^ 
DON^us, LoBEL^ and Joi)n Bauhine^ 
lince thofe alfo are eftablifhed on the habit, 
and in which many of the natural clafles 
are tolerably well preferved ; it may be an- 
fwered in a fummary way, that habit, even 
in Batjhine's order, the moft perfed of 
them, is the prevailing principle, without 
regard to agreement in the parts of fra£tifi~ 
cation, except in thofe claffes, where na- 
ture has joined both together : this is a 
difference much more effential than may at 
fir ft be apprehended : and, what is ftill lefs 
accurate than a regard to habit alone, fome 
of their claffes (if they are worthy of that 
appellation, no definitions of them being 
prefixed,) take their name merely from the 
mode of growing, as, Sca?2dentes ; from the 
ftru6lure of the leaf, Nervifolice ; Rotuiidi^ 
folice ; CraJJifolice place of growth, Aqua- 
ticce ; and what is ftill lefs eligible, the 
afpecft, and fuppofed agreement in the qua- 
lities, fjch 2iVt, Maltgn(^ Mollientesy Pa^ - 
^flvera 3 under all of which^ are promifcu- 
pufiy colleded, plants as diffimilar as pof- 
fible^ in the ftruiture of the flower and fruit. 
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