CLASS 6.
24. Eleeagni consist of Unman Calymjgore; ord. 16, with various genera besides, referred to almost as many different orders by Linnteus, so that here the two sys tems exhibit but little analogy, nor is this oneof Jus sieu's best orders.
26. Protege, an order scarcely known to Linnaeus, though an extremely natural one. It makes a part of his Aggregate, ord. 48, in the establishing of which, a sort of artificial character, expressed in the name, has led him into unnatural combinations ; a fault which Linnmus, more than any other writer in this depart ment, has generally avoided.
29. Aiiiplices, another portion of the same CLASS 7.
cellanete, ord. 54, were also referred subsequently to the Holeracee. They are supposed to differ from ' Jussietes two preceding orders, in having the stamens inserted into the receptacle, not into. the calyx, hence forming a separate class. But there is no instance perhaps in which his system proves more artificial, and at the same time more uncertain in character. Mr Brown has anticipated the latter part of our re mark in his Prodromus, 413, nor could it fail to strike any one who ever considered the subject.
has no order 81. Plantagines. gnus to these. Yet he has left 82. Nyctagtnes. manuscript indications of his 33. Plumbagines. perceiving the affinity of some of the genera. CLASS 8.
34. Lysimachia embrace many of the Rotacee, ord. 20, and Preciee, ord. 21. Globularia, Tozzia, &Indus, Utricularia, Pinguicula, and Menyanthes, subjoined as allies, not indeed without many doubts: apOear to us greatly misplaced. The first of these is allowed to indicate an order not yet defined.
85. Pediculares, an important order, which Jussieu has well selected out of the Linnran Personate', ord. 40 ; though we are somewhat startled at sliding Polygala at the head of the list, which Linnaeus, not more happily perhaps, ranges with his Lomentacee, ord. 33.
87. Jasmine are precisely the Lisinzaa Sepiarite, ord. 44.
38. Vitices consist of more Personate, separated with judginent from the rest ; Linnaeus having, in the contemplation of his 40th order, been again seduced by artificial principles, and by the usage perhaps of considering his Didynamia Angiospennia as of itself a natural order.
41. Solana consist principally of Lerida, ord. 28, to which a few more of the Personate are sub joined as allies. It is remarkable that, in his charac ters of the seven last-mentioned orders, lumen admits those marks, derived from the stamens, on which the classes of the Linnsean artificial system depend. The intelligent reader will easily observe, that the distinc tions thence deduced, form a leading principle in the respective positions of these orders and the following. This is the more curious, Si the French school is en- • tirely obliged to Linnaeus for bringing the organs is question into notice, for the purposes of arrangement, Tournefort and his pupils having never adverted te them.
44. Borraginee, these are theAsperifolia, ord. 41, of Linnaeus, surely better placed by, hina between his Personate and Verticillate. The order is, very natu ral, and Jussieu's criticism upon it excellent.
43. conuutouu logo us Linnaeus , n os Polemonia in the two first being referred to ns has the . 45. Bignonies his Campanacee, order 29, and of 1 the last to Personate.
in this instance we cannot but admit the superiority of Jussieu's arrangement. , 46. Gentiane-a very natural and distinct order, confounded by Linnaeus with his &taste, ord. 20, to which it has but little relationship.
47. Apocinea-precisely the Linnsean Contortre, ord. 30, a most distinct and curious tribe, though both the great authors, of whom we are treating, have been mistaken in referring hither a genus or two, which do not at all belong to it. See our remarks an this 30th order of Linnaeus.