CLASSIFICATION. 13] 
is furnished with a lid, and the leaves are 
small, fig. 138. 
5. The Musci hepaitci: these in general have no 
stem; their leaves grow larger, and lie flat: 
The capsule bursts into several valves, fig. 127. 
4. The rizices, Ferns, are plants that never 
push from the root more than one leaf on a foot- 
stalk, (some Indian species excepted), and the leat 
at its evolution is generally rolled up in a spiral. 
Their fructification is either m a spike, (spicifera), 
fig. 9, or on the back of the leaf, (epiphyllosperme 
s. dorsifiore), fig. 15.3 or lastly, on the root in the 
form of a knob, (rhizosperme). 
5. The GRamina, Grasses. These have their 
leaves long and slender, their stem, which is called 
straw, is commonly jointed, and each flower bears 
but one seed: the flower likewise is very different 
from that of other plants, fig. 34. 
G. The yinia, Lilies, have bulbous or tuberous 
roots, long, slender leaves, specious flowers, without 
calyx, or instead of it a spatha. 
7. The PALMAE, palms; these have an arboreous 
stem, but never branches; the leaves rise from the 
stem, which is called stipes. ‘The flowers issue from 
a spatha. 
8. PLANTAE, plants are all that do not come under 
the above divisions; they are either Herbs, Under- 
shrubs, Shrubs, or Trees. 
a. Herbe, are all such plants as bear flowers 
and seeds but once, and then die. They 
do this either in one year, and are then 
called Annuals, (plante annue@); or they 
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