xviii ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY. 
merical terms in the titles of thefe orders, fignifies a 
wife ov female: 
MONOGYNIA, implies one woman or female fart 
which is one Jiyle» 
DIGYNIA, two ftyles. 
TRIGYNIA, three ftyles. 
TETRAGYNIA, four ftyles. 
PENTAGYNIA, five ftyles. 
HEXAGYNIA, fix ftyles. 
DECAGYNIA, ten ftyles. and 
POLYGYNIA, many ftyles ; derived from monos^ one 
and gune^ foemina, a woman, &c. to polus^ many, and 
gune^ woman. This will be thought fuflicient, as they 
are further explained in the body of the work, where 
they occur. 
Clafs 14 Bidynamia^ the firft order of this clafs is 
GYMNOSPERMIA, derived from the two greek words 
gumnos^ nudus, naked, and fperma^ femen, a feed, which 
ftiews that the plants of this order have naked feeds, in 
oppofition to the next order, 
ANGIOSPERMIA, which is derived from aggeion^ 
vas, a veflel, and fperma^ femen a feed, and means fuch 
as have their feeds in a feed-veftel. 
The orders which conftitute the 15th cl^SsTetradyna-- 
•mia^ are fufficiently explained in their proper place. And 
the orders of 16, 17, and 18 clafles, are denominated 
from the number of the ftamina, which have been 
explained already, and the derivation of each given. 
The orders belonging to the other claftes are all fuffici- 
ently explained under their proper heads, where they 
' occur, to repeat them here, would be mere tautology. 
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