The vegetable SYSTEM. 
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Coreopfis j and we may learn from it the chain of nature. Our 
Gemelia has the Circlet of leafy films of the Bidens raifed into a part 
and portion of the Cup : it fliews therefore what that kind of Cir- 
clet is in nature ; namely the firfi; advance from a more fimple toward 
a more complex Cup. The Cup of Bidens is therefore the ex- 
treme, or laft of the fimple Cups, and that of Coreopfis the firfi; of 
the double ones. This Gemella is the fecond advance ; or the Plant 
between them. In the order of original nature it flands there, and 
there it will have its place in our fucceeding natural method ; in 
which there will be no difi:in<5lion of feparate or broken Parts, under 
different arrangements, but the courfe will run on thus j 
I. Bidens, having a Circlet, placed beneath the Scales of its 
fimple Cup. 
II. G EMELLA, having the Circlet twinborn, and connedled 
with the inner Scales of the Cup ; only making an outer 
range. 
III. Coreopsis, having the outer range difiant and fpreading. 
IV. SiLPHiUM, having the outer range difiant and Leafy. 
This is the order of nature in refpedt of thefe four genera, and by 
this will be brought together Plants which no artificial charader con- 
nects, tho’ they are really allied fo clofely. 
Our third and fourth AttraCtylis, and the two Carpefia in the fol- 
lowing Plates, afto:d like infiances j connecting what are called, in 
artificial methods, different claffes ; but it is not yet a time to fpeak 
of them. 
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