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examined, it will be feen that five ft a mens 
are the mqft conftant number belonging to 
fuch flowers ; and they may be referred to the 
clafs Pentandria without hefitation. The urn- 
belled plants are improper fubjecls to begin 
with from the rninutenefs of their parts of 
fructification. The larger forts of flowers* 
and thofe of tlie moft fimple conftrudlion^ 
Ihould be made choice of, and when they,, 
>vith their claffes and orders^ are well under- 
flood, the pupil may proceed to more com- 
plicated kinds \ the honeyfuckle (lonice'ra) 
and lungwort (pulmonaria) are fimple flowers 
of the clafs Pentandria and order Monogynia, 
five ftamens and one piftiL The fnow-drop 
(galanthus), hprfe-chefnut (efculus), and rrie- 
zereon (daphne), are fpecimens of the claffes 
Hexandria*, fix ftamens, Heptandria, {even 
ftamens, Oclandria, eight ftamens, and of 
their firft. orders, Mqnogynia, one piftiL The 
clafs of nine ftamens, Enneandria, contains 
only fix genera. There is but one britifh fpe- 
cies known which belongs to this clafs, that 
is the butomus, or flowering rufli, and this is 
not to be commonly met with. The wood- 
forrel (oxalis) is an elegant fpecimen of the 
clafs. Decandria, ten ftamens, and the order 
Pentagynia a 
