The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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B S, 
With many Flowers allembled in a Common 
Cup. 
SERIES THE Second. 
Thofe which have the Chives distinct. 
CLASS I. 
Associates. 
Character of the Class. 
Plants with many Tubular Florets affembled together in 
one Common Cup ; and with the Chives diftind. 
I N the Plants of this Clafs one common Cup contains a great num- 
ber of Florets, conftituting what is called the Flower ; and in each 
Floret there are five long Chives, growdng upon fliort threads. Thus 
far the affociates agree with the whole firfl feries, the Radiates, Florets, 
and femiflorets : and with the two firfl of thofe clafles they agree alfo in 
fome refpC(fl in the conflrudion of the Florets. Thefe, like thofe which 
conflitute the fecond clafs, and thofe which form the Difk in the firll, are 
made of a fingle piece, tubular at the bafe, fwelling in the body, and cut 
into five feginents at the rim ; but in the Florets of the Affociates, the 
tubular bafe is long, and the fegments are alfo long, flender and thrown 
forward ; whereas in the others, of both kinds, they are fliort, broad 
and turned back. Tins difference will be obvious on comparing the 
fecond figure in the annexed plate i. with the firid figure of plate 14, 
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