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from the ‘edges, and placed one within 
the other, according to the order of their 
éxpanfion, thofe which are to be pro- 
duced Jaft occupying the centre. 
4. After having proved the identity 
of ftruéture in the three preceding orx- 
ders of plants, I was curious to know, 
whether the genera of SMILAX, RUSCUS, 
and. ASPARAGUS, whofe ftems ramify 
and apparently refemble thofe of the 
dicotyledonous fhrubs, had any affinity 
jn their internal arrangement; fer this 
purpofe, I procured fome old ftems of 
fmilax excelfa, fmilax afpera, rufcus ra- 
cemofus, rufcus androgynus, . afparagus 
retrofractus, afparagus acutifolius ; and, 
after examining them with a high mag- 
nifer, [can confidently affirm, that they 
have neither concentric cylinders nor 
medullary proceffes, and their fibres are 
clofer as they approach the circumfe- 
rence. 
5. In the fame divifion may be ranged 
the DRACONTIUM, YUCCA, AGAVE, 
ALOE, and ALETRIS; all which plants 
ereatly refemble the palm, in the pofi- 
tion of their fibres. ‘They have no con- 
centric cylinders, and the pith between 
the fibres does not fend out any lateral 
proceffes or diverging rays. The outer 
covering of the item is not a proper 
ark, but merely an aggregation of the 
dead fibres of former leaf ftalks, with 
deep circular rings, denoting the num- 
“ber of years of growth. 
5. All the igneous LILIACEOUs plants, 
as well as the ANANAS and PANDANUS 
ODORATISSIMUS, are fimilar in ftruc- 
ture to the reft of the monocotyledonous 
plants. ine 
6. Phe arborefcent FILICES, like the 
palms, have their trunks crowned with 
a tuft of leaves, the trunk itfelf being - 
compofed of coarfe fibres, becoming com- 
paci in proportion as they recede from 
the centre; and covered with a folid 
bark, formed of the fibres of former 
leaf-ftalks. 
7. The items of the perennial 1yco- 
-POpIUM, and other MUSCI, beara very 
near affinity to the other plants with 
one feminal leaf, in the ftruéture of their 
‘ftems, though they differ confiderably in 
the foliage and organs of fruétification. 
To thefe general obfervations, not a 
fingle exception has been found, though 
avery great number of the living and 
‘dried plants, in the rich colleétion of the 
National Mufeum of Natural Hiftory, 
has been examined, with this particular 
object in view. 
We may, therefore, divide vegetables 
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into two grand natural claffes, whofe 
charaéters are the following : 
1. Vegetables, which haye no diftinét 
concentric cylinders, whofe folidity de- 
creafes from the circumference towards the 
cenire, having pith interpofed betweem 
the fibres, but giving out no medullary 
procelies—MONOCOTYLEDONOUS. 
2. Vegetables, with diftinét concen- 
tric cylinders, whofe folidity increafes 
from the circumference towards the 
centre, having pith in a long tudinal 
canal, with diverging medullary pro-. 
cefles—DICOTYLE: ONOUS. 
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE JURY OFARTS 
AT Paris. 
This Jury was eftablifhed by a Decree of the 
Convention, and confifts of celebrated Artifts 
and fcentific Profeffors. They were appointed 
to diftribute Prizes and Recompences to men 
who diftinguifh themfelves in the Arts, &c. 
Prizes decreed to Works of ARCHITEC- 
TURE, SCULPTURE, and PAINTING. 
Ss artiftt MoITeE, of Paris, was defired 
to prefent the model in relievo of his 
plan of a Triumphal Arch, in memor 
of the Tranfaétions of Oétober 6th. 
Three other artifts obtained pecuniary 
prizes for fimilar models. ; 
Some of the candidates received pecu- 
niary prizes for the beft plan of a Cclumn 
to be ereéted in the Pantheon, infcribing 
the names of thofe Warriors that have 
died for their country. Of thefe prizes 
PERCIER and MEUNIER, of Paris, and 
FonTAINE, of Pontoife, obtained the 
moft confiderable. 
The Jury, however, difapproved of the 
form cf a Column, as of all others the 
worft adapted to Infcription. 
Lanure, of Paris, received the me- 
dium of pecuniary prizes for his plan of 
an Amphitheatre, on the fite of the an- 
cient Opera. Here alfo the Jury cen- 
fured the Programma (the paper which 
invited competition) as injudicious ; fay- 
ing, it was impoffibie to conftruct an edi- 
fice capable of containing the immenfe 
population of Paris, and worthy to cele- 
brate the National Feftival, &c. within 
fuch narrow precincts as thofe of the an- 
cient Cpera. 
Some pecuniary prizes were adjudged 
to fome of the models exhibited of a 
Monument in the Place des ‘Victoires, in 
honour of the citizens who died for their 
country on the 1oth of Auguft. 
The Jury adjudged the firft prize, 
that is, pronounced the defign worthy of 
being executed at the natiopal expence, Ag 
the 
