ADVERTISEMENT. 
Linnaeus the younger, with a few others.—Also several notes 
and observations are added, and the specific names to the 
genera in the Index of British Names ; together with the 
British names to the Genera of Old Authors.—And that the 
Science may be divested of indelicacy in an English dress, 
for the word bastard, which frequently occurs in Botany, the 
word base is substituted; and the word hermaphrodite, is en¬ 
tirely discarded; and instead thereof, the word monoclinia 
(one bed) which Linnaeus makes use of in his Key to the 
Sexual System (called the nuptials of plants) is in general 
adopted (in allusion to the marriage state) in all those classes 
where husband and wife are in the same bed or flower; for in 
such the sexes are not united, but stand separate and distinct; 
each flower being perfect in its kind ; whereas the word her* > 
maphrodite (in our language) implies imperfection, and gives 
a very disagreeable idea, as also greatly lessens the affinity in 
the sexual analogy between plants and animals, which is the 
basis of the system ; if any flowers can with propriety deserve 
the excluded appellation, they are those of the class gynan » 
dria, 
