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BOTANICAL LECTURES. 
PART THE SECOND. 
LECTURE I . 
Genera of Ptants a 
Having acquired the knowledge of the 
feven parts of Fructification, of the various 
modes of Inflorefcence, and of the ClalTes 
with their Orders, the pupil may begin with, 
the Genera of plants, or third divifion of the 
fyftem. A Genus is an afTemblage of feveral 
fpecies of plants, which referable each other 
in their mo ft effential parts, and has often been 
well compared to a family, the whole of which 
bears one common name, while a particular 
one, or a fpecific name, is given to each indi- 
vidual. Linneus has demonftrated, that nature 
has imprinted certain characleriftic marks on 
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