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ledge of botany. He has divided the vegetable 
kingdom into twenty-four Claffes; the firft ten 
Claffes include the plants in the flowers of 
which both ftamens and piftils are found, and in 
which the ftamens, when arrived at maturity, 
are neither united nor unequal in height. Thefe 
Claffes are therefore diftinguiftied from each 
other Amply by the number of ftamens in 
each flower, and may be known upon the 
firft view by their numbers, as expreffed by. 
the words prefixed to the Claffes : the firft 
Clafs is known by the name of Monandria, 
which fignifies one-male, or one-ftamen, the 
ftamens being the part of fructification, which 
Linneus calls the male ; fo that the nume- 
rical word joined to the Word ahdria forms 
the titles of the firft thirteen Claffes; an at- 
tention to which circumftance will make the 
talk of committing them to the memory by 
no means difficult. An enumeration of the 
titles of the firft thirteen Claffes may be of 
ufe. Monandria, one-ftamen; diandria, two- 
ftamens; triandria, three-ftamens; tetrandria, 
four-ftamens ; pentandria, five-ftamens ; hex- 
andria, fix- ftamens ; heptandria, feven-ftamens ; 
oclandria, eight- fta mens ; enneandria, nine- 
ftamens; decandria,ten-ftamens; dodecandria., 
twelve-? 
