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LECTURE V. 
Clafs Polygamia explained-, Caprification. Clafs Crypto* 
gamia explained* 
The effential character of the clafs Poly* 
gamia confifts in the plants; of which it is 
comprifed, having, on the fame root, flowers 
which contain ftamens and piftils within the 
fame cover, and alfo other flowers, which 
bear either ftamens feparately, or piftils fepa- 
rately; fometimes flowers are found on the 
fame plant, which contain ftamens and piftils, 
ftamens without piftils, and piftils without 
ftamens : the prefence of the firft kind marks 
the clafs ; without flowers, which contained 
both ftamens and piftils, the plant would be- 
long to either the clafs one-houfe, or two- 
houfes. The plants of the Polygamia clafs 
are many of them difperfed, by botanic 
writers of the prefent age, into Monoecia 
and Dicccia; fo that probably that clafs will 
foon be banifhed from the lyftem. The 
orders, of which there are three, depend on 
the 
