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loth, Stamina ad Petala duplo Sesquiterti a ; the Le- 
guininofae beginning with Aftragalus, and ending with Polygala 
and Fumaria, which he calls Papilonaceis affines : followed very 
naturally by the 
nth. Stamina quatuor inequales, or our Ringentes Cap- 
ful at® ; though the fird: Plant, Monkia, has but three Chives, and 
does not feem to belong to this natural order. 
i2th, Flores uni semini insidextes. Aggregate:; this 
Clafs comprehends all the Aggregate and Compofitas. It is divided 
into fix great Orders. The 
ift Placenta common i nulla; here he places only Valerian : 
which perhaps would have come better with Circaea and the 
Stellata?. 
2d, Are the Stamina Libera, or our Aggregat/e. 
3d, The Capitate. 
4th, The Corymb I fera;. 
5’th The Radi at a: ; and, 
6th, The Plan i petala;. 
After this diort fketch, need I affirm that Haller follows 
Nature clofer than ever any did before How many natural Claffies I 
How finely connedled ! if we except tome few Plants of the Diplof- 
temoncs ; the firfi: orders of the Ifoftemones ; the third great order 
of that Clafs, which is mixed, though with very natural fubdivifionsj 
the Meioflemones, and the firfi: order of the Aggregatje, with fome 
very few Plants difperfed up and down. I dillike the mixing of Trees, 
and it is for this reafon alone I fiill prefer Ray, though in many 
other things much inferior to this learned man ; and remarkably fo 
in the connecting his ClafiTes. Ray negleCled that too much, Hal- 
ler affeCts it every where, and has fucceeded, except in two or 
three Infiances. Thus I do not think the Ifoftemones and Diplof- 
temones connected ; for the putting in one Plant, as Acer, is not 
fufficient. I cannot fay there is any affinity betwixt the Umbelliferae 
and the third order of that Clafs, nor betwixt the fubdivifions of that 
order ; nor do I think the Moioftemones at all proper ; nor confe- 
quently have the Siliquofae any relation to what go before them. 
Laftly, the Ringentes are not connected with the Aggregatae. 
These 
