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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
dead, by aflirming him to be the greateft Botanift that ever any age 
produced. Should I, after what has been faid, treat his Syftem with 
great freedom, let me not be fufpe(^^ed of any defire to leflen his 
fame, I have myfelf allifted to eftablifli it : whatever fate attends the 
ojie, the other will remain while Botany is cultivated : he does not 
pretend it as a natural method, I cannot commend it as an artificial one; 
for innumerable are the exceptions to his clafiical charadlers. See. I 
fliall not examine it minutely, nor take notice of every Plant that dif- 
agrees with the title it flands under ; fome few general obfervations 
will be fufiicient. His bell dalles are thefe : 
Didynamia, where Melianthus is the only Plant unnaturally 
placed : but then there are thofe wanting, that are in this Diandria, 
which quite ruins this natural dais. 
Tetr ADVNNAMiA. The Siiiquofae ; are pure, if we except 
Cleome. So are 
IVIoN ADEi.PH I A. The Malvacea; ; as alfo the 
Diadelphia, or Papilionacex ; and the 
Syngenlsia; the lull order excepted. But then his method of 
dividing this lafl Clafs, according to the Sex, is terrible. In the 
Polygamia Superflua, there are Species of the Gnaphalium, that 
belong to the Polygamia .dEqualis, others that belong to his Clafs of 
Dioicia : and of the Tullilago, fome Species are Androgynea. But 
indeed, nothing renders this Syflem fo unnatural, or lb uncertain, as 
the dividing the Plants into Sexes; which will appear more hereafter. 
IcosANDRiA feem pretty natural. 
Gynandria : The firfl order of this Clafs, containing our Or- 
ciiiDEA, is very well: but the others render it artificial. Of the 
remaining Claffes. The 
Monandria contain fomeof the Spathaceas. 
Triandria are a mixture of the Bulbofae, Tricoccae, Coronatx, 
Gramina, Sec. and the Valerians there have an equal Right to four or 
five different ClalTcs. The 
Tetr andri a have fome of the Aggregatae, Stellatae, Sec. In the 
Pentakdria, are the Afperifoliac, Primular, many of the Cam- 
panulae, and all our Bifolicuiares ; with many other different Plants : 
and amongil the reil the Umbelliferae, which natural order will alio 
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