5 ° 
The vegetable SYSTEM. 
ing Nature fo nearly as Ray has done : however, in fonie things, he 
excelled all that went before him j as in his generical charadters, 
which, though taken from Tournefort’s are greatly preferable ; 
for he makes ufe of more parts of the Frudlilicatioii in his deferip- 
tions. He alfo f rll: examined the number and difpofition of the 
Chives. He divides his Syllem into Herbs and Trees; yet wherever 
he foundTrees naturally connedted with Herbs, as in the Leguminofe, 
Trioccce, &c. he avoided feparating them. An excellent method, 
and almoft peculiar to himfeif. He begins, like Ray, with the 
imperfedt Plants, and then divides, with him, both Herbs and Trees, 
into Monocotyledones and Dicotyledones. 
His iff, 2d, 3d, are three Clalles of imperfedt Plants: Submari- 
nae Terreffres, and Caplllares. 
4thi The Gymnopolyfpermx, the Anemone tribe, a very natural 
Clafs. 
5th, Gymnod I SPERM.'E, the Umbclllferx, very pure. 
6th, Gymnomonosperm.e Simpi.ices, a fliort Clafs of the Va- 
lerians, Agrimony, and other Coronatx, that feem well placed af- 
ter the Umbelliferx ; though I cannot fay all are well connedted here. 
7th, 8th, 9th, loth. The Gymnomonofpermse Compofitae are 
divided into four Clafles ; Planipetalx, Difeiflorx Radiata, DifciHone 
Nudac, C^pitatx. Thefe are perfedlly pure, tho’ fome Species of his 
Dilciflorx will be radiated, others naked in the fame Genus. 
iith, Gymmod I sperms Stellate. This natural fliort Clafs 
fl'iould have followed the Umbelliferx with the Coronatae. 
j2th, Gymkotetrasperma; Ver 1 i ci llata:, the Ringentes 
very pure. So is the 
13th, Gymnotf.tr asperm.^ Asperifoli/e. 
14th, Gymnotetrasperm^e Tetr apetalte. This contains 
only the Potamageton. 
15th, Monangi^, compofed of two good orders, the Primula 
and Lichynls’s. 
16th, DiangijE; this begins with Lythrum and Saxifrage, fol- 
lowed by the reft of our Ringentes Capfulatae. 
17th, TriangIjE ; the firfl order mixed with many Campanacex 
and Qmnqueloculares, as Hypericum, and Parnaflia ; and fome 
Multifiliqux, as Refeda : the others are Tricoccx, to which he adds 
Cardiafpermum. 
1 8 th, Te- 
