Volume 1

The universal herbal, or botanical, medical and agricultural dictionary : containing an account of all known plants in the world, arranged according to the Linnean system. Specifying the uses to which they are or may be applied.

  • Green, Thomas.
Date:
1816
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    ANALYSIS OF THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. ANALYSIS OF THE LINNEAN SYSTEM. =s>©»@9<i5S> Every Vegetable is supposed to have a Flower \ 'Visible; Stamina and pistilla in the same flower; 'Male and female organs distinct; rC,runina not united above nor below; Of equal length ; CLASSES. 'Monandria. .One Stamen or Husband; a Diandria ..Two Stamina ....do •iandria ..Three ..do do Tetrandria . .Four . .do.. Pentandria.. Five ....do.. Hexandria .. Six .... do.. Heptandria.. Seven .. do.. Iandria .. Eight .. do.. Enneandria. Nine ... .do.. Decandria . .Ten .... do.. Dodecandria Twelve . .do.. ..do.. r XIV. 8 ) | ) XV. § £ XVI. XVH. XVIII. XIX. XX. XXI. XXII. XXITI. XXIV. Or, Of Unequal Length, o short stamina, called the superiority ) Or, Stamina United Gynandria Monaxia Polygamic :ts, called many ( the female organs or pistilla, hence called wife and > Or, Stamina and Pistilla i: different Flowers, s, called ) n separate plants, called the tv ..males, females, or hermaphrodites, found upon the ) same or different plants, called many marriages; J EXAMPLES. Ginger, Indian arrow root, turmeric, blite, mare’s tail. Jessamine, privet, olive, lilac, speedwell. Valerian, tamarind, iris, and the grasses. Scabious, teazel, madder, holly, woodroof, plantain. Bell-flower, bindweed, mullein, thorn-apple, periwinkle, prim- rose, and the rough-leaved and umbelliferous plants. Snow-drop, narcissus, tulip, aloe, hyacinth. Horse-chesnut. Indian-cress, heath, French willow. Bay-rhubarb. Fraxinella, rue, rhododendron, lychnis. Purslane, houseleek, asarabacca. Peach, medlar, apple, rose, cinquefoil. Herb Christopher, poppy, larkspur, columbine, ranunculus. Savoury, hyssop, ground ivy, balm, toad-flax, fox-glove, agnus castus, bear’s breech. Scurvy grass, candy-tuft, water-cress, stock, woad, cabbage. Geranium, and the mallow tribe. Fumitory, milk wort, and the pea bloom flowers. Orange, chocolate nut, St. John’s wort. Violet, balsam, cardinal flower, and the flowers termed com- pound, as dandelion, succory, thistle, cudweed, tansy, blue- bottle. Orchis, ladies’ slipper, arum,vanelIoe, birth-wort, passion-flower Mulberry, nettle, oak, cypress, fir, cucumber. Willow, hop, spinach, poplar, mercury-juniper, lychnis dioica. White hellebore, pellitory, orach, fig. Ferns, mosses, mushrooms, mould, algae.