Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes.
- Robert Darwin
- Date:
- 1787
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Principia botanica: or, a concise and easy introduction to the sexual botany of Linnaeus ... / [Anon.] Arranged in columns under each class and order; and digested alphabetically under several generie distinctions. By which means most plants may be thus far ascertained. Together with three indexes ... Also a table of several vegetable drugs not in the indexes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *45 ] Class XXIII. P O L Y G A M I A. (Polygamies.) This clafs consists of such genera as have hermaphro- dite flowers, and also either male or female flowers, or both, distinft, either on the same, or on different plants. So that to be of this clafs, a plant ought to have some of its flowers hermaphrodite, to distinguish it from those of the clafses monxeia, and dixcia. Yet there are a few exceptions, as in the third distinftion under the second order, and in the third order. The polygamy of hermaphrodites and males on the same plant, is also observable in several of the umbel- liferous plants, (pentan. digyn.) particularly carrot, sanicle, hog s fennel, coriander, chervil, shepherd's-needie, alisander, bastard-parsley, and carui.—These plants therefore striftly ought to have been arranged under this clafs; but Linnaeus more properly judged the na- tural character to be prevalent. This clafs contains three orders. Order I. M O N (X C I A. [One house.) Having the polygamy on the same plant. no. genera. growth. nf' ?f native of species ° ° species. J m Brit, tst, Male hermaphrodites, and female hermaphrodites.* Spat ha. i Musa, h 3 India. U 2d. Ilcrma- * Called so from the sex that is predominant, as a malt, hermaphrodite s ith th eft.nalt abortive or ineffectual; and female hermaphrodite the male.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28764754_0159.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
