This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...11 Stamina Brownea IV. Dodecandria 12 Stamina Penta Petes V. Polyandria many Stamina Malta. Son.--I thought no plant had eleven Stamina. Father.--None that fall into the first classes.of number only. But here is an exception, as it regards the Brotherhood flowers, viz. the class XV. Monadelphia. We will next speak of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...11 Stamina Brownea IV. Dodecandria 12 Stamina Penta Petes V. Polyandria many Stamina Malta. Son.--I thought no plant had eleven Stamina. Father.--None that fall into the first classes.of number only. But here is an exception, as it regards the Brotherhood flowers, viz. the class XV. Monadelphia. We will next speak of Class XVII. DlADELPHIA. It Has Only Fouk Ohders. No. Name. Definition. Examples. I. Pentandria having 5 Stamina as Monnieria II. Hexandria 6 Stamina Fcmaria III. Octandria 8 Stamina Poltgala IV. Decandria 10 Stamina FisvHrs. Father.--This makes four proper divisions of this class, whereas the Pistillas would have. afforded none. Son.--1 acquiesce in the reason. Father.--As this arrangement is designed to serve only as a Dictionary, the beauty of association is less regarded than the facility of using such a system to find out the names of plants. Son.--Here we are agreed, but at first sight I did not like the same words occurring as Orders, which were before used as Classes. Father.--You confess, however, that as the union of filaments supersedes the flowers, where this does not occur, that the Orders could not be framed in any other better way. Son.--Agreed; please to go on. Father.--The class XVIII. PolyadelFhia, contains four orders: Son.--1 should have liked to have seen Citrus, the orange, lemon, and gourd, in the same class, as the pear, apple, peach, &c. Father.--So would Linnaeus; but as he professes his System is only meant to facilitate a knowledge of plants, this could not happen, as respects the orange, also the gooseberry, &c. his being; purely an artificial arrangement. Son.--1 see now the use of his System, made more for practice than for show. Father.--It will be of this use, that with his book in our hand, of only sixty...
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