The VEGETABLE SYSTEM. 59 
HERBS. 
With assembled Florets, and UNITED 
Chives. 
CLASS III. 
With assembled ligulated Florets. 
Of the Orders or Subdivifions of the third Class. 
T HESE Plants have fome differences in their Cups; which 
are conftant to the Genera whereto they belong, and 
therefore become the marks of difiindt Orders : but the number is 
lei's by one than in the tubulated, radiate, and naked Claffes : for the 
Ligulated Clals does not afford one Plant whofe Cup is entire. 
Such a Cup as the Orthonna fhews among the radiated kinds, 
the Tarchonanthus offers among the naked ; a vafe of one piece 
nip’d at the rim : but among thefe there is no fuch Cup. 
The four other diftindtions are found in thisClafs ; but the Plants 
are diftributed very differently under them. Both in the radiated and 
naked kinds, the order of fringed Cups contains only one Genus : 
here 
