CLASSIFICATION OF PLANTS. 
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which a plant belonged in the Linnaean or Jussieuean systems. In 
a science like Botany, some sort of Terminological arrangement ap¬ 
pears essential to system. The whole of the Vegetable Kingdom, 
from the difference of their habits and constitutions, may he classed 
as plants belonging to three great regions . The plants in each of 
these regions may be divided into three distinctive groups, which 
may be again subdivided into three Orders each, thus making in the 
whole 27 Orders. 
The description of vegetation in its most comprehensive sense may 
be designated by the term Botanographia, and the regions may be 
designated with reference to the three great varieties of plants, as 
follows:— 
1. Crescaffines, or those plants which increase indefinitely, 
and sometimes attain a great age, as the oaks of this country, the 
cedars of Lebanon, and many others. 
2. Termaffines, or those trees which only live until a certain 
peculiarity of their organization is accomplished, and which then 
blossom, hear fruit, and decay as palms, &e. &c. 
3. Mycaffines, or those plants which have merely a cellular tis¬ 
sue, &c. 
The scientific investigations of these regions are indicated respec¬ 
tively by the terms,—Mycologia, Termologia, and Crescologia, each 
term including three distinct classes, as follows 
Mycologia. 
Botanographia. * 
Termologia. 
Crescologia. 
1. Algol ogia. 
Timestain, Flags, &c. 
2. Fungologia. 
Mildew and Mushrooms. 
3. Muscologia. 
Mosses and Liverworts. 
-4. Filicologia. 
Ferns, &c. 
5. Graminologia. 
Grasses, Sedges. 
6. Palmarologia. 
Palms, Lilies, &c. 
.7. Pinarologia. 
Pines and Zamias. 
8. Rosarologia. 
Roses, Pulse, &c. 
9. Selanthologia. 
Selvvorts. 
