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INDEX to the Article BOTANY. 
J^GARICUS campeftris, or common mush¬ 
room, 288. 
Aggregate, plants with aggregate flowers, 
298. 
Aggregate flowers, different forts, 252, 298. 
Algae, the 3d order of Cryptogamia, 282, 
299 ; how to dry and preferve, 302. 
Amentacete, plants bearing catkins, 299. 
Antiquity of the fcience of botany, 233. 
Arrangement has greatly facilitated the 
ftudy of botany, 233. 
Afperifolias, or rough-leaved plants, 29S. 
Authors, ancient and modern, who have 
written on this fcience, 233. 
Eicornes, or two-horned plants, 295. 
Boerhaave’s 34 claffes, 291. 
Bryum extin&orium and fcoparium, 281. 
Coefaipinus’s diflindtion of vegetables, 290. 
Calamaris, or reeds, 294. 
Calycanthemse, 295. 
Calyciflorse, in Linnteus’s natural order, 
295. 
Calyx, 246, 293. 
Campaniceae, plants with bell-fhaped flow¬ 
ers, 296. 
Capillary attraftion in plants, 235. 
Caryophylleae, 296. 
Circulation of the fluids in plants, 236. 
Clafles and Orders of Linnaeus, 256, 
Coadunatae, plants with connefted feeds, 
299. _ 
Colurnmferae, or columnar plants, 297. 
Compofitre, plants with compound flowers, 
298. 
Conifeise, cone-flowered plants, 299. 
Contort®, plants with a twilled petal, 296. 
Corolla, 247. 
Coronariae, or crowned plants, 295. 
Corydales, or hooded plants, 296. 
Cryptogamia, 259, 279. 
Cucurbitacete, gourd-lhaped plants, 297. 
Cuticle of plants, 234. 
Uecandria clafs, 259.268. 
Diadelphia clafs, 258, 273. 
Diandria clafs, 257, 264. 
Didynamia clafs, 257, 271. 
Dioecia clafs, 259, 277. 
Dodecandria clafs, 257,269. 
Dumofae, or bulhy plants, 298. 
Enrte.mdria clafs, 257, 268. 
Enfalte, or fword-fhaped plants, 294. 
Filices, or ferns, 279, 299. 
Flower, its different parts, 246; Ample 
and aggregate, 252; double, 252; mu¬ 
tilate, 253. 
Fru&ification, ufe of that term, 246. 
Fuci, or fea-weeds, 283. 
Fungi, or mufhrooms, 28S; directions for 
preferving, 302. 
Genera of plants on the Linnxan fyftem, 
260. 
Gefner’s arrangement of plants, 289. 
Gramina, or graffes, 294. 
Gruinales, or crane’s-bill plants, 295. 
Gynandria clafs, 258, 276. 
Hales’s experiments on the perforation of 
plants, 236. 
Hederactae, or ivy, &c. 298. 
Heptandria clafs, 257, 268. 
Herman’s clarification, 291. 
Hefperideae, 296. 
Hexandria clafs, 257, 267. 
Hill’s natural order, 294. 
Hints to young botanifts, 264. 
Holoraceffi, or pot-herbs, 295. 
Icofandria clafs, 257, 270. 
Inundates, or aquatic plants, 295. 
Knaut’s botanical fyftem, 291, 292. 
Leaves, 240; divided into three claffes, 
ibid ; their angles, linus, apex, and mar¬ 
gin, 241 ; fubftance, 242 ; compound 
and determinate leaves; ibid, figures of 
the Ample leaves, 243; of the com¬ 
pound and determinate, 245. 
Lichens, their propagation and ufe, 282,283. 
Linnaeus's fyftem, 233 ; founded on a dif¬ 
ference of fexes in plants, 234, 237; 
arguments-in its favour, 253; his clafii- 
fication, 256 ; defended by the reviewers 
againft Dr. Withering, 260 ; owned by 
tlie author to be imperfect, 294; his na¬ 
tural order of plants, ibid. 
Luridas, or dangerous plants, 206. 
Luxuriant flowers, different forts, 252. 
Magnol’s fyftem iounced on the calyx, 296. 
Mtlcellaneas, mil’cellaneous plants, 299. 
Monadelphia clafs, 258, 272. 
Mona’ndria clafs, 256, 2C3. 
Moncecia clafs, 258 j now abollfhed, 277. 
Monoecia order, 278. 
Morifon’s fyftem not uniform, 290. 
JVi'uitifiliquae, or many-podded, 296. 
Mufci, or mofl’es, 280, 299; their ufes, 
282; directions for drying and preferv- 
ing, 302. 
NeCtary 248. 
OQandria clafs, 257, 26S. 
Orchidete, or fcrotutn-fliaped plants, 294. 
Palm®, or palms, 259, 289, 294. 
Papiuonacete, plants with papilionaceous 
flowers, 297. 
Pentandria clafs, 257, 266. 
Pericarpium, 250. 
Perfonat®, or mafked plants, 297. 
Perfpiration in plants anu vegetables, 236. 
Piperits in Linnaeus’s natural order, 294. 
Piftilium, 249. 
Plumier's American plants, 293. 
Polyadelphia clafs, 258, 274. 
Polyandria clafs, 257, 270. 
Polygamia clafs, 239, 270. 
Pomace®, or apple-bearing, 297. 
Pontedra’s fyftem, 293. 
Precis, or early plants, 296. 
Preferving, &c. of plants, 300. 
Putaminea, or (helled plants, 296. 
Ray’s method of claffification, 290. 
Receptacle, 251 ; its diftinCtions, ibid. 
RhceadeK, or poppies, &c. 296. 
Rivinus’s fyftem founded on the flower, 
2915 authors who have followed this 
method, 292. 
Roots of plants, 237 ; pith of the root, 238 5 
various kinds of roots, ibid. 
Rotacete, or wheel-fhaped plants, 296. 
Sap, experiments on, 235. 
Sarmentofas, or iong-ftemmed, 295. 
Scnbridae, plants with rough leaves, 299. 
Scitaminese, or d3inty plants, 295. 
Secretion, the power by which piar.ts pro* 
duce their different parts, 236. 
Seeds, 250; their number, 251. 
Senticofae, or briars, &c. 297. 
Sepiarue, or woody plants, 298. 
Sexual f yftem of Linnaeus, 237. 
Siliquofre, or podded plants, 297. 
Spathaeete, or fheathed plants, 295. 
Specific differences, 261. 
Stamina, 248. 
Stellatae, or ftarred plants, 298. 
Succulent®, or juicy plants, 295. 
Syngenefia clafs, 258, 274. 
Syftems, the different ones enumerated, 
289, 294. 
Tctrandria clafs, 257, 265. 
Tetradynamia clafs, 258, 271. 
Tetrapetaloidere, 294. 
Theophraftus’s fyftem, 289. 
Thornton's new fyftem, 289. 
Tournefort’s fyftem, 293. 
Triandriaclafs, 257,264. 
Tiicoccre, or three-celled plants, 297. 
Tiihilutre, or three-feeded plants, 296. 
drunk 01 ftem, 238 ; varieties and defec¬ 
tions, 239. 
Varieties in clanffication, 262. 
Vepreculae, or brumbies, 296. 
Verticillatte, or whirl; d plants, 298. 
Umbellotts, or umbelLted plants, 298. 
Withering’s, Gmelin’s, and Thun berg’s, va¬ 
riations from ths Linnsan fyftem, 259. 
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