VI 
INTROD^UCTION. 
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\ f ^ VERONICA, 
In the firll place to detennine the clafs, I carefully 
examine feveral flowers, to find the number of the flami- 
na, which in this plant, I hnd to be two-, I therefore 
fay it is of the Diandria clafs: I then examine the num- 
ber of pijlils which I hnd to be only one, I therefore i 
conclude with certainty it is of the order of Adonogynia-, 
had there been two, I hiould have faid it had been of ' 
the Bigynidy if three Trigynidy &c. I’o determine the ^ 
genus, I hrfl examine the cup, by the defeription in the 
book-, then. the fio^djerythen the jtdmindy pijtily and fruity ' 
every one of thefe concurring with the defeription, I 
conclude the plant to be of the genus of the Veronicds : 
If I chufe to go further, and diflinguifli the fpecieSy I ; 
examine;the leaves, &c. and hnd the plant to be, Upright \ 
Spiked Mdle Speedwell or FluelUuy with flowers to the end 
of the fpike, the leaves oppofite, and obtufely crenated, j 
and flaik quite fimple and afeendent. ^ I 
HOUSE-LEEK, 
I examine the fildments or Jidmindy and hnd there are ^ 
twelve in number, I then immediately fay it is of the 1 
Bodecdndrid clafs, and becaufe there are above h.ve pijlils^ 
I fay it is of the order Pelygynid, 
SERA VV BERRY, 
' I examine the Jldmind which I hnd to be more in 
number than nineteen, and the cup and corolla being 
according to the defeription of the twelfth clafs, and 
the 
