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Writings of Linnaeus/' of which a most superb and highly 
enriched new edition has been published by the learned 
and ingenious Doctor Maton.) 
Class XVIII. PoLYxiBELPHiA, has the fdaments 
united at bottom into one or more parcels, hence they 
form an appearance like the cameFs-hair pencil. If you 
were not to attend to this character, you might easily 
suppose these plants to belong to the Class XIII. Poly- 
ANDRiA ; for there are here no natural families, as in 
the last class, announcing immediately upon the first 
sight to what class they belong. 
Class XIX. Syngenesia, contains the natural fa- 
mily of COMPOUND FLOWERS (ComposiH), being made 
up of an assemblage of small-flowers, or florets. Com- 
pound flowers are easily distinguished, by considering 
that the corolla is either tubular or Ugidate, and that the 
whole flower is composed of such florets, all tubular, or 
all Ugulate, or a mixture of both kinds, and that tlie an- 
thers, which are five, form a sheath round the pistillum. 
The florets in the centre are styled the Disk, in the cir- 
^cumference the Ray, and such are called Radiate 
Flowei'Sy as the Bellis Perenn^s [Daisy), &c. and 
should any one of these florets be removed, a disfiguration 
takes place. These possess also a common Calyx, and a 
CQinmon Receptacle, which ends with a bifid stigma. 
Syngm^sia is a kind of connecting link, betwixt the 
other classes, and the three just now going to be enu- 
merated, for the different sexes are joined in the radi- 
' ^.ted compound flower. 
Class XX. Gyijandria, strikes the beholder by 
