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VEGETABLES. 
Stamen, an external organ, conftituting the confifting of a 
flender filament fupporting the anthera big wkh prolific pollen or dull, 
and derived from the wood. 
Fijlil, an interior organ, conftituting the Female; confifting of a 
germ or rudiment of the fruit and feafed beneath, a Jifie placed in the 
middle and fupporting the moill pubefcent Jligma; derived from the 
pith. 
Pericarp or Germ, bearing feed after the fall of the flower ; which 
may be either a capfiule with valves, and fcparated by partitions into 
cells : filique or long a-valved pericarp, with the feeds fixed alternately 
along each future; filicule or 2-valved pericarp refembling a filique, 
except that it is nearly as wide as it is long : legume or a-valved peri- 
carp, in which the feeds are fixed to one future only: follicle or fm- 
gle-valvcd pericarp opening longitudinally on one fide and containin<y 
loofe feeds: pome or pulpy fruit, having- the feeds lodged in a core: 
herry or pulpy fruit, having the feeds naked: drupe or pulpy fruit, 
containing a nut or ftone with a kernel : Jlrobile or pericarp com- 
pofed of imbricate hardened fcalcs, as in the cone of the fir-tree or 
the pine-apple. 
Seed or Egg, deciduous, covered tyith a coat, and pregnant with 
the new plant. ' 
Receptacle or bafe, conneding all the parts of fruQ;ification. 
They are difttibuted into 24 Claffies, dillinguiftied by the number, 
proportioh or fituatibn of the Jiamina. ' 
The Claffes are divided into Orders, taken from the number or 
difference s of the Jlyles, the pericarp, the number, proportion and fitu- 
ation of the Jiamina, or the di.^pofition and charaeffer of the florets. 
1 he Orders' are fubdivided into Genera, containing all thofe which 
agree in their parts of fruSiification. 
'Fhe Genera are again branched into Species, confifting of every 
individual whofe form and ftruflure is invariable and perpetual. 
CL.^SSES; 
