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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
of nature in the plants with fingle plain capfules for 
the feed ; and follow her fteps, as fhe allows more 
and more numerous petals to the flower in plants 
fo diftinguifhed by the fruit. The lall clafs having 
contained thofe which have with a fingle cap- 
fu!e four petals, the following will comprehend 
thofe which have with a fingle capfule five 
petals ; and from thefe we fliall advance to 
the confideration of fuch as have fix, or more 
than fix petals, with the fame kind of feed- 
veflil. 
Thefe being defcribed, we fhall treat of thofe 
which have pods with four-leaved flowers, and 
thofe which have pods with papilionaceous 
flowers. 
This is the method we have laid down as 
moft conformable to nature : and thus much we 
have judged proper, indeed neceflary, to fay of 
it here ; lefl:, as the work appears in feparate parts, 
tlie reader, who cannot till the whole is delivered 
to him, determine properly of % fhould be mifled 
by an opinion founded on parts of it only, and 
led to fuppofe that through miftake omitted in 
this place, which we hope is rightly referved to 
another. 
ne END of . the EIGHTH CLASS. 
