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ftamens placed on the infide of the calyx or 
corol, The thirteenth clafs, many jiamem, 
Polyandria, has it's ftamens 'inferted on the 
receptacle ; their number being from twenty 
to one thoufand in the fame flower. This 
clafs is the laft of the numerical ones, or, 
more properly, of thofe which have numerical 
titles, it having been lliown that the charac- 
ters of the three laft claries depend nearly as 
much on the fituation of the ftamens, as thofe 
which are yet to be confide red. The firfl 
thirteen Claifes, with their Orders, fliould be 
well underftood, before thofe which are more 
complicated are entered upon. 
The ClaiTes are all divided into w T hat are 
termed Orders ; thefe fubdivifions of the firft 
thirteen Claffes are founded on the number 
of piftils, or on that part of fructification 
which Linneus calls the female. If a flower 
contains one of thefe females or piftils, it is 
of the firft' order • if it contains two,, of the 
fecond ; and fo - on to any number that it 
may contain. The Linnean term for the 
orders is formed from the Greek word, 
which fignifies a female, joined to another 
w T ord expreffive of the number ; fo that, as 
Monandfia fignifies one- male or ftamen, Mo- 
nogynia 
