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SUPPLEMENT TO LINCOLN'S BOTANY. 
The Author, after seeing for thirty years the success of her works, 
(from time to time revised and imprgved,) is happy to be enabled to 
offer to teachers and private students this Supplement, for the more 
familiar explanation of the Natural System. 
To those who have arranged Herbaria according to the system of 
Linnaeus, it is recommended to examine or analyze anew each specimen, 
writing upon the page to which the plant is affixed the characters of 
the same, as found by the Natural System — that is, having found the 
Natural Order to which the plant belongs, copy from that order the 
characters which are applicable fo it. 
The Authoi* having found great assistance from this exercise, copiea 
from her own Herbarium the two following examples. The method is 
merely suggested ; it might be carried to a much greater extent. Sup- 
pose the plant in question to be the shell-flower : 
Example 1st. 
Phenogamous. 
DiCOLTTEDONOUS. 
EXOGENS. 
PolypetalouB herbs, verdant 
and leafy. Leaves caultne, 
or ?/ radical the corolla ia 
ipurless. 
MoLUCELLA lavia. 
Class DlDYNARNIA, 
Order Gymnospermia. 
Natural Family 
LABIATE. 
Stamens 2-4, fewer than 
the lobes of the corolla. 
Calyx free from the corolla. 
Ovary deeply A-lobed, form- 
ing 4 achenia around the base 
of the style. 
Example 2d. 
Phenogamous. 
DiCOLTTEDONOUS. 
ExOGENS. 
Sub-class. 
/*oly petal ous (see page 247.) 
Herbs with divided leaves. 
Flowers mostly perfect. 
Petals, and mostly the se- 
pals, deciduous. 
Raceme a long, slender 
plume. 
Macrotys racemosa. 
Class POLYANDRIA. 
Order Monogynia. 
Natural Family 
RANUNCULACB^. 
AngiospermtB. 
Stamens very ?inmerous (iu 
this plant over 100,) uncon- 
nected with the calyx or co- 
rolla, hyperogynous. Calyx 
free, separate from the pistils. 
Pistil one. Filaments longer 
than the anther. Anthers 2- 
celled. Synonyms, Actea 
CiMCIFUGA. 
Original Memorandum. — "This plant was found by Mr. Wm. E. Aikin, at Gorham, 
N. Y., in 1828." (Now Prof. Aikin, of the University of Maryland.) 
Fig. 171, page 247, was copied from an original drawing of this plant. 
Most of the numerous figures illustrating the Natural Orders, were 
taken from drawings from nature, made under the supervision of the 
Author, 
Eutaw-Place, Baltimore, Maryland, 
March 1, 1860. 
