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CHAPTER XXIV.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINNÆAN CLASSES AND ORDERS.
I proceed to a compendious view of the Linnæan Classes and Orders, which will serve to illustrate many things in the preceding pages.
Class 1. Monandria. Stamen 1.
This contains only two Orders.
1. Monogynia. Style 1. Here we find the beautiful exotic natural order called Scitamineæ, consisting of Cardamoms, Ginger, Turmerick, &c., hitherto a chaos, till Mr. Roscoe, in a paper printed in the 8th vol. of the Linnæan Society's Transactions, reduced them to very natural and distinct genera by the form of the filament. See Exot. Bot. t. 102, 103, 106—8.
