viii I T R O D U C-T I O N. 
S C u' r K T G R J S S. 
I firH. look at th^ (lamina, which in this I find to be- 
fix in number, I am not therefore hallily to pronounce 
it of the Hex andri a becaufe on further examination 
I fhall find that four of the ftamina are long-er than the 
other two, I therefore fay it is of the "Tetradynamia clafs, 
and becaufe, it has a (hort pod, it is of the order Silicn- 
lofa^ if it had had a long pod, it would have been of 
the order - 
V ^ L 
C R A NE^s B I L L, 
I examine the (lamina, and find they coalefce at the 
bafe, and form one body, T therefore determine it to be 
of the Monadelphia clafs,’ and becaufe there are ten fta- 
mina, it muft be of the order Decandria, 
. • FUMirORT, 
Upon the firft view of the fmver^'l fee it Is of the 
papilionaceous or hutterfiy-kind^ and upon examining the 
ftamina, I find they form two diftindl diiTimular bodies 
which coalefce at the bafe; the one above the piftll, the 
other furrounding it, I therefo;e pronounce, with cer- 
tainty, that it is of the Hiadelphia clafs, and becaufe there 
are fix ftamina, it muft be of the order Hexandria. 
L E r F U C E, 
I firft obferve that it bears compound ligulated 
flowers, and that the florets are ail hermaphrodite; I 
therefore 
