An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish].

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1787
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Credit: An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ders dr fubdivifionsx>f thefe clafles are, as far as poffible, drawn from a film- i lar number, fituation, or arrangement of the piftils, or female organs. In the firft twenty clafles are contained fuch flowers as have the ftamina and piftils both within the fame cup or pe¬ tals, or Handing on the fame recepta¬ cle where thefe are wanting. The au¬ thor calls them hermaprodite: as ac¬ cording to his doctrine there are both male and female parts in the fame flower. The firft ten clafles proceed in an uninterrupted feries, from Monandria to Decandria ; the plants of each hav¬ ing as many ftamina as the title ex¬ prefires ; thus, i. Monandria, Stamen unicum in flore hermaphrodito. 2. Diandria, Stamina duo in flore herma¬ phrodito. 3. Triandria, Stamina tria in flore hermaphrodito, &c. The eleventh clafs is Dodecandria, Stamina duodecim in flore hermapro- I dito.