The vegetable system. 
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Fructiflor>® ; this is the Coronatrices of Linnaeus’s methodus 
Calycina. It is by no means a bad Clafs, though it follows ill the 
laft. The Campanulae are very improper here ; they belong to another 
of his Claffes, though the character of that would not admit them. 
Cliffbrtia and Ariftolochia are ill placed j and Linnaea is a Ringens. 
Calyciflor^; this is the Floribundae of Linnaeus, and comes 
properly after the laft ; for the female Plants of the Cucurbitaceae 
that form the firft order here, belong to the Frudliflorae. The fecond, 
third, and fourth orders are taken from the Icofandria of Linn^us, 
and agree well together; but have nothing to do with the firft or laft 
order, which takes in the Cadtus, PerefTcia and Mefembryanthemum. 
Ringentes; this Clafs is excellent, but has no affinity with any 
near it. 
SiLiQuosTE ; this is precifely in the fame cafe, and fo are the 
Columnifer^, the Malvaceae. 
Leguminos^, and this natural Clafs. None of thefe, as they 
are placed, have the leaft connedtion with one another. 
Oliganther-E. Now we come to the three mixed ClafTes of this 
Author ; in which are excellent orders interfperfed with others, con- 
taining very different Plants. Here is certainly an improvement on 
Linnteus, who, by keeping to the number of Chives, feparated 
Plants ftrangely. Royen faw that their proportion to the number of 
Petals or of Segments in the Monopetalae, would be more favourable 
to Nature : accordingly he put into this Clafs all Plants, whole Petals 
or Segments equal or exceed the number of their Chives. So that 
we have here many of LinnjEus’s firft five ClafTes, but chiefly his 
fifth ; the Afperifoliae are kept pure in the fourth order ; our Bifolli- 
culares in the fifth ; in the lixth are many of the Primulae, tho’ with 
a mixture of foreign Plants, as Amaranthus, Parnaffia, &c. in the 
feventh are feveral of the Solanaces, and next them feme of the Cam- 
panulse ; others are in his Frudtiflonc. The reft of this order, with 
the two laft, are mixed. 
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