X; PREFZAGE

Families, which are all natural aſſociations, and are deſcribed from the general reſemblances of the parts of fructification, in reſpect to their number, form, ſituation, and reciprocal proportion. Theſe are the Calyx; or Flower-cup, as ſeen in No. iv. Fig. 19 Noi. Fie.1.00073:0No0/.20%. Fie 1,2 35 4:"Second; the Corol, 6r Bloſſom."as ſeen in No. 1, 8.&c. Third, the Males or Stamens, as in Na. 1v.:- Eid. 14 and No: vii. Fign1.. Fourth; the Females, or Piſtils, as in No. 1. No. zii. Fis: 44 N6. 31 Figt 34 Now Vig 3. Filth, the-Pericarp or Fruit-veſſel, as No. xv. PT. 042/ 5 NO XV

Fig. 2. Sith. he Seeds

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Botany, in his preface to his account of the Natu- ral Orders, ingeniouſly 1magines, that one plant of each Natural Order was created in the begin- ning; and that the intermarriages of theſe Pro- duced one plant of every Genus, or Family: and that theintermarriages of theſe Generic, or Family plants, produced all the ſpecies: and: laſtly, that the intermarriages of the individuals of the OPC

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