BOTANICAL 
LECTURES. 
PART THE FIRST. 
5 i i 1 i i „ i a te 
LECTURE L 
T'be Seven Parts of Fruttification explained* 
Linneus ? the great fwedifh naturaliil:, has 
divided the vegetable world into 24 clajfes; 
thefe clafles into about 120 orders; thefe 
orders contain about 5000 families ; and thefe 
families about 20,000 /pedes, befide the in- 
numerable varieties, which the accidents of 
climate or cultivation have added to thefe 
Ipecies. The lyftem of Linneus is called the 
fexual fyftem of botany, from being founded 
on obfervations, which feem to prove, that 
there are males and females in the vegetable 
world, as well as in the animal. The ftamens 
are termed males, and the piftils females: 
thefe moft frequently exift in the fame flower, 
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