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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
Thf fixthls the Siliquofe, under which title he puts feveral of the 
Multifiliquae and Multilocares. 
The 7th holds the Bulboiae, to which he adds fomc Plants with 
naked Seeds, as Anemone. 
The 8th is a Grange medly of Mallows, Plants with one Seed- 
Veflel, many pods, and Apetalas. 
The 9th and 1 3th take in the compound Plants, though with many 
improper ones, as Valerian, Pine-Apple, &c. 
The I oth con lifts of Graftes with I'everal of the Iheathed Plants. 
The 1 2th has the Umbelliferac joined with the Fillipendula Ulmaria, 
&c. and moft of the Stellatae 
The 13th, holds the Tricoccse. Two Plants, the Spurge and Rici- 
compofe this Clafs. 
The 14th, the Galeatae and Vcrticillatac, to which he adds the 
rough -leaved Plants. 
The 15th has the Multililiquce and Multicapfulares, though more 
properly many celled. 
The 16th, the Bacciferae, and of thofe few Plants. 
The 17th, the Capillary. 
The 1 8th, the Heteroclite, which is a ftrange medley of all forts 
that he could not bring into his former Clafl'es. 
This Author, therefore who boafted fo much of having firft formed 
a Syftem from Nature, owes almoft every thing he has that is good 
to CjESAlpine, whom he never mentions; but he has by no means 
kept his Claflcs fo pure as that Author ; not having one without fome 
unnatural mixture. 
Ray gave the next Syftem; which, though borrowed greatly from 
the two former, and conlequently founded chiefy on the Fruit, yet 
takes in all the other parts of Plants : this Author has approached 
nearer to Nature, and followed her alfo more clofely than the gene- 
rality of later Writers. This method begins with the fmallcft,, and 
moft imperfed: Plants, and ends with Trees. He firft divides Vege- 
tables into Plants with Under- fhrubs, and Trees with Shrubs. 
Of the firft he has twenty-five Claftes, by him called Genera. 
The 
