The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. - With Philosophical Notes.

Erasmus Darwin

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[Illustration: FLORA at Play with CUPID.]

THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. CONTAINING THELOVES OFTHEPLANTS. A POEM. WITH PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES.

LONDON: PRINTED BYJ. NICHOLS, FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. M, DCC, XC.

THE SECOND EDITION.

VOLUME THE SECOND. VIVUNT IN VENEREM FRONDES; NEMUS OMNE PER ALTUM FELIX ARBOR AMAT; NUTANT AD MUTUA PALMÆ FÆDERA, POPULEO SUSPIRAT POPULUS ICTU, ET PLATANI PLATANIS, ALNOQUEASSIBILAT ALNUS. CLAUD. EPITH.

Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jayam Subramanian and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Title: The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. With Philosophical Notes. Author: Erasmus Darwin Release Date: January 11, 2004 [EBook #10671] Language: English

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOTANIC GARDEN. PART II. ***

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PREFACE.

Linneus has divided the vegetable world into 24 Classes; these Classes into about 120 Orders; these Orders contain about 2000 Families, or Genera; and these Families about 20,000 Species; besides the innumerable Varieties, which the accidents of climate or cultivation have added to these Species. The Classes are distinguished from each other in this ingenious system, by the number, situation, adhesion, or reciprocal proportion of the males in each flower. The Orders, in many of these Classes, are distinguished by the number, or other circumstances of the females. The Families, or Genera, are characterized by the analogy of all the parts of the flower or fructification. The Species are distinguished by the foliage of the plant; and the Varieties by any accidental circumstance of colour, taste, or odour; the seeds of these do not always produce plants similar to the parent; as in our numerous fruit- trees and garden flowers; which are propagated by grafts or layers. The first eleven Classes include the plants, in whose flowers both the sexes reside; and in which the Males or Stamens are neither united, nor unequal in height when at maturity; and are therefore distinguished from each other simply by the number of males in each flower, as is seen in the annexed PLATE, copied from the Dictionaire Botanique of M. BULLIARD, in which the numbers of each division refer to the Botanic Classes. CLASS I. ONE MALE, Monandria ; includes the plants which possess but One Stamen in each flower. II. TWO MALES, Diandria . Two Stamens. III. THREE MALES, Triandria . Three Stamens. IV. FOUR MALES, Tetrandria . Four Stamens. V. FIVE MALES, Pentandria . Five Stamens. VI. SIX MALES, Hexandria . Six Stamens. VII. SEVEN MALES, Heptandria . Seven Stamens. VIII. EIGHT MALES, Octandria . Eight Stamens. IX. NINE MALES, Enneandria . Nine Stamens. X. TEN MALES, Decandria . Ten Stamens. XI. TWELVE MALES, Dodecandria . Twelve Stamens.

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The next three Classes consist of plants, whose flowers contain but one of the sexes; or if some of them contain both sexes, there are other flowers accompanying them of but one sex. XXI. ONE HOUSE, Monoecia . Male flowers and female flowers separate, but on the same plant. XXII. TWO HOUSES, Dioecia . Male flowers and female flowers separate, on different plants. XXIII. POLYGAMY, Polygamia . Male and female flowers on one or more plants, which have at the same time flowers of both sexes.

In the next two Classes, not only the number of stamens are to be observed, but the reciprocal proportions in respect to height. XIV. TWO POWERS, Didynamia . Four Stamens, of which two are lower than the other two; as is seen in the two first Figures of No. xiv. XV. FOUR POWERS, Tetradynamia . Six Stamens; of which four are taller, and the two lower ones opposite to each other; as is seen in the third Figure of the upper row in No. 15. The five subsequent Classes are distinguished not by the number of the males, or stamens, but by their union or adhesion, either by their anthers, or filaments, or to the female or pistil. XVI. ONE BROTHERHOOD, Monadelphia . Many Stamens united by their filaments into one company; as in the second Figure below of No. xvi. XVII. TWO BROTHERHOODS, Diadelphia . Many Stamens united by their filaments into two Companies; as in the uppermost Fig. No. xvii. XVIII. MANY BROTHERHOODS, Polyadelphia . Many Stamens united by their filaments into three or more companies, as in No. xviii. XIX. CONFEDERATE MALES, Syngenesia . Many Stamens united by their anthers; as in first and second Figures, No. xix. XX. FEMININE MALES, Gynandria . Many Stamens attached to the pistil.

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