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VI. ERUCTUS.——FRUIT. ’ 
Tue different {pecies of fruit, fuch as plums, ber- 
ries, apples, feeds, &c. are too well known to require 
a defcription. | 
—$co¥ TENE NG G4 — 

tilt atemn 4 CLASSES. | 
F LOWERS are either hermaphrodite, from having 
both the fexual diftinétions of male and females, ftam- 
jina and pointals; male, from having sTAMINA only; 
or female, from having only POINTALS. 

| THE sTAMINA are either detached from each 
other, united together by one of their parts, or joined 
fometimes with pointals: ‘hey are of equal length, 
lor have fome fhorter,than the reft ; and the number, 
/proportion, and fituation of the ftamina determine the 
|CLASSEs, as the differences of the pointals determine 
the ORDERS of flowers. 
\The claffes, according to the number of flamina in the 
| male parts of the Flower, are called, 

1. Monanpria, one ftamen. z. DIANDRIA, 
itwo ftamina. -3, TRIANDRIA, three.——4. TE- 
[TRANDRIA, four. 5. PETANDRIA, five.——6, 
HExanoRlA, fix.—-y. HEPTANDRIA, feven.——8. 
IOCTANDRIA, eight.——g. ENNEANDRIA, nine.——- 
110. DECANDRIA, ten. 11. DOoDECANDRIA, €- 
leven.—12. IcosanpriA, when more than twelve. 
13. POLYANDRIA, when more than thirteen. 




