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7. HEPTANDR.IA, having feven males. 
8. OCTANDRIA, having eight males. 
9. ENNEANDRIA, having nine males. 
10. DECANDRiA, having ten males or ftamina.. 
It mud be obferved that in all thcfe chafles, the flowers 
are hermaphrodite-, for Ihould the femaie part be v/ant- 
ing in any plant, fuch plant would belong to ibaie other, 
dais. 
11. DODECANDRIA, this term implies that 
the fiov/ers have twelve ftamina or male parts, but is not 
ftridly confined to that number, but includes all her- 
maDiirodite flowers, furniflied with any number of ilami- 
na. from twelve to nineteen, both inclufive : No flowers 
yet have been found to have exadly eleven ftamina, and 
therefore no clafs has been allotted to that number. 
12. ICOSANDRIA, is derived from eikofi^ viginti, 
twenty, and ar;^ry vir, a hufband or male part. Tho’ the 
plants which belong to this clafs are rarely found vv^ith 
lefs than twenty ftamina, yet they frequently have a greaE 
er number, and therefore to know them from thcfe of the 
next clafs, recourfe muft be had to tne ckfs Icojandria in 
the book. 
13. POLYANDRIA, is a v/ord formed of the two 
greek words pclus^ many, and aner^ a hufband, and fignE 
fies that the flowers have many ftamina and always more 
than twenty. 
14. DIDYNAMIA, is derived from dis^ tv/o, and 
dunamis^ power, and fignifies the power of tv/o, and h 
applied to this clafs, becaufe the flowers have two fta- 
mhia longer than the reft, v/hcreby it is to be diftin- 
guilhed from the fourth clafs. 
