A botanical dictionary: or elements of systematic and philosophical botany / [Colin Milne].
- Colin Milne
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A botanical dictionary: or elements of systematic and philosophical botany / [Colin Milne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ANALYSIS of the celebrated SEXUAL SYSTEM of LINNiEUS, Accordin'* to this ingenious Method all Vegetables are furnijhed with FLOWERS, which are either Yifiblf, Stamina and pointal in the fame flower, (Male and female organs diftinft, 'Stamina not united either above or below, (Generally of equal length, r IN NUMBER. K <1 One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Twelve, — CLASSES. 1 Monandria, - 2 Diandria, 3 Triandria, 4 Tetrandria, - 5 Pentandria, - — 6 Hexandria, - — 7 Heptandria, - — 8 Ottandria, - — g Enneandria, - — IO Decandria, - — 11 Dodecandria, Many, frequently twenty, attached 1 j r , . to the calyx, j n 5 Many, generally upwards of twenty, 1 P0lvandria not attached to the calyx, j ^ ’ [_Of unequal length, _Stamina united Two long, and two Ihort, — 14 Didynamia, - Four long, and two fhort, — 15 Tetmdynamia, by the filaments, into one body, 16 Monadelphia, into two bodies, 17 Diadelphia, - into many bodies, 18 Polyadelphia, by the anthers or tops, into a cylinder, 19 Syngenejia, - Male organs (ftamina) attached to, and ) L Handing upon the female (piftilium). J fStamina and pointal in different flowers, on the fame plant, — — on different plants, — — on the fame, or different plants along 1 n .. - with hermaphrodite flowers, J 'Jr lie concealed from view, and cannot be diftinftly deferibed. — — 20 Gynandria, - 2 x Monoecia, 2 2 Dioecia, - 23 Poly garni a, - 24 Cryptogamia, EXAMPLES. Ginger, Indian arrow-root, turmerick, blite. Jeffamine, privet, olive, lilac, fpeedwell. . Valerian, tamarind, iris, and the grades. • Scabious, teazel, madder, holly, woodroof. - Bell-flower, bind-weed, mullein, thorn-apple, peri- winkle, and the rough-leaved and umbelliferous plants. - Snow-drop, narciflus, tulip, aloe, hyacinth. - Horfe-chefnut. - Indian-crefs, heath, French-willow. - Bay, rhubarb. - Frax nella, rue, rhododendron, lychnis. - Purflane, houfe-leek, afarabacca. - Peach, medlar, apple, rofe, cinquefoil. Herb -chriftopher, poppy, lark-fpur, columbine. Savory, hyfl'op, ground-ivy, balm, toad-flax, fox- glove, agnus callus, bear’s-breech. Scurvy-grafs, candy-tuft, water-crefs, flock, woad. - Geran - Fum, - Orang Viol te c Orel' P: Mul Wil Whit iium and the mallow tribe, atory, milk-wort, and the pea-bloom flowers. , chocolate-nut, >St. john’s-wort. :t, balfam, cardinal-flower, and the flowers med compound, as dandelion, fuccory, thiftle, :Cdweed, tanfey, blue-bottle. vanelloe, birth-wort. is, ladies-flipper, ifoion-flower. arum, jerry, nettle, oak, cyprefs, fir, cucumber, ow, hop, fpinach, poplar, mercury, juniper. e hellebore, pellitory, orach, fig. Fert]s, mofles, mulhrooms, flags.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22041710_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
