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fhews that the plants of this clafs have their male and 
female parts on diftincl parts of the fame plant; i. e. the 
flowers are not hermaphrodite, bat thofe flowers v/hi:h 
have the (lamina want the piflil, and thofe that have a 
piilil want the (lamina, yet are all found on the fame 
plant, but in different flowers. 
22. DIOECIA, from tv/o, and oikos^ domus a 
houfe or habitation, and means that the flowers are ei- 
ther male or female, but that the male flowers are on 
one plant and female on the other. 
23. POLYGAMIA, many, zndgamGS^ a 
marriage, and fignifles a plurality of marriages. T his 
clafs produces, either upon the fame or different plants 
hermaphrodite flowers, and alfo flowers of one fex only, 
be it male or female-, or flowers of each fex-*, and the 
latter receiving impregnation from, or giving it to the 
hermaphrodites, as their fex happens to be. The parts 
eflential to generation in the hermaphrodite flowers, do 
not coniine themfelves to the correiponding parts with- 
in the fame flower; but become of promifeuous ufe, 
which gives name to this clafs. 
24. CRYPTOGAMIA, from kniptos^ concealed, 
and games^ a marriage, and therefore it fignifles concealed 
marriage, and is applied to this clafs, becaufe the plants 
belonging to it, either bear their flowers concealed with- 
in the fruit, or have them fo fmall as to be imperceptible. 
ORDERS. 
A S the ten flrfl; clajfes took their denomination from 
the number of Jiamina or male parts of the flower, 
fo the orders of the thirteen clajjes take their denomina- 
tion from the number of the pijiils or female parts of the 
flowers. The greek word, compounded Vv^ith the nu- 
c. merical 
