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fliow the impropriety of his fexual method ; for numbers of them, 
cfpecially thofe with large and thick Seeds, belong to his Polygamia. 
Why fliould I mention the Lapathums, Atriplex, Rhamnus, 
Laurus, Amaranthus, Blitum, Carex, Lychnis, Papaia, &c. that 
have all Species with Flowers of different Sexes ? Bryonies are Mo- 
nsEcia, Dioecia, Androgynae ; and fome Veratrums are of both 
Sexes. The 
Hexaxdria contain many of the Bulbofae, with others. In the 
Decandria are mixed the Alfines and Lychnis’s. In the 
PoLYANDRiA are a few of the Multifiliquae ; in fhort, the Cucur- 
hitaceas, Apetalae, Gramina, Amentaceae, Tricocca?, are cruelly divid- 
ed, many are in his Diociaa, Moneciae, Polygamia. In the firft of 
thefe are feveral Genus’s with hermaphrodite Species, as Fraxinus, 
Urtica, Salix, Aruncus, Spinachia. How many more Species have I 
omitted, that belong to other ClafTes, rather than thofe they rank 
under ? Upon the whole, he has not kept the natural orders near fo 
pure as Ray and Boerhaave, and many are totally deftroyed. But 
waving that, and taking it only in the light of an artificial Syflem, the 
innumerable exceptions we meet with in Plants differing from their 
Clafles, renders it, in my opinion, very intricate and very uncertain. 
But Bill he has great merit, even here ; as in the excellent whole 
charadferiftics of the Compofitze, Papilionacea;, Siliquofe, Malvaceae, 
■and the Orchideae, which are formed to continue lafling marks of 
thefe natural Families j and, indeed, I may fay as much of the Rin- 
gentes if we add the two-chive Plants to his I'etradynamia. To this 
and his characters we muft attribute the aftoniflring Su.ccels his Syflem 
has had ; in fpite of all the prejudice, the envy and malice of its op- 
pofers, in fpite of all its faults, many eminent Botanifts have received 
jt, and all have new modelled their Syftems by this Author’s obferva- 
tions : if fome correct him, they are manifeftly affilted by the wea- 
pons he himfelf has provided for them. 
T H2 two remaining methods we fhall now examine, are built 
upon his foundations. The firfl is Royen’s, printed in 1740. H-e 
has laudably endeavoured to keep the natural Claffes together as much 
as poffible ; and for that reafon, many of his Plants differ from their 
claffical charadler. Far from blaming him in this., I wifh he had 
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