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The vegetable SYSTEM. 
certain Marks. I mull: obferve, that he fays he follows LtnNj^us’s 
natural fragment, and that it is almoft entirely the fame with 
Tournefor t's. I have hardly met with a* bolder affirmalioh. 
Finally, Sauvages publillVed, in 1751, a method, in which 
the charadlers of Clalfes are taken from the forth, fituatioh, and dif- 
pofition of the Leaves. 
He arranges all Plants under eleven Clalfes. 
1. Aphyj.i A- ; thole which have no Leaves, as MuHirooms. But 
he extends this farther than might be imagined ; including even 
Rulhes and Leeks, whofe Leaves do not differ from their Stalks. 
2. Cespit 1 Plants with Leaves in tufts, as Mandrake, Auri- 
cula, and the like ; adding the Orchis’s, and fome of the Graffes. 
3. Spaks.^ angustifol I a:-; Plants with narrow and fcattered 
Leaves. This vaft arrangement holds the graffes, and many of the Li- 
liaceae with leafy Stalks. 
4. Sparsa: Latifolia; with broad fcattered Leaves: this alfo 
comprehends avail number; which are fubdivided according to the 
lhape of the Leaves. Thefe arrangements, if they were corredl 
enough for any certain ufe, would be rather Families, than Clalfes 
of Plants ; and thole fubdivifions would be the proper Claffes. 
c^. Adversifolia ; with Leaves in Pairs ; a very large number. 
C. Vertisii.lata ; with Leaves arranged in circles round the 
Stalk. This difpofition of Leaves is indeed lingular, and in a man- 
ner claffical. 
7. DiGiTATA; with fingered Leaves. This comprehends thofe 
Plants with fcveral Leafits riling from one point, from the Trefoils 
to Hemp. 
8. Palmata; with handed Leaves; divided into many Seg- 
ments, but not compofed of diltindl Leafits ; as Hop, the Figtree, 6cc. 
9. PiNNATA; with winged Leaves; containing the Pea and Vetch, 
and all fuch others. 
10. Decomposi T/E ; wdth recompound Leaves; compofed of 
numerous Leafits let upon divided and fubdivided ribs; as in the Car- 
rot, Fennel, and the like. 
11. Laciniata; Plants with jagged Leaves ; this alfo is another 
very large Clafs. 
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