1681. First order, _Foliariæ parenchymatosæ_. Herbs with bilocular capsules, in which there are many seeds placed upon a median cone. The capsule dehisces, while both carpels separate from each other--_Primulaceæ_, _Scrophulariæ_, _Solaneæ_. 1682. Second order, _F. vaginatæ_. For the most part herbaceous, their many-seeded carpels springing open at the dorsal suture--_Orobanchaceæ_, _Rhinanthaceæ_, and _Bignoniaceæ_. 1683. Third order, _F. axonales_. Regular quinary corollæ with seeds borne upon the margins of the two carpellar valves--_Gentianaceæ_, _Asclepiadaceæ_, _Jasmineæ_. 1684. Fourth order, _F. florales_. Few seeds in one capsule; the pistil becomes nut-like or trilocular--_Labiatæ_, _Polemoniaceæ_, _Convolvulaceæ_. 1685. Fifth order, _F. fructuariæ_. Herbs and shrubs with fruits; as nuts, plums and berries. For their sixteen families (vid. Tab. B.) B. BLOSSOM-PLANTS. 1686. Flowers polypetalous. SECOND CIRCLE. _Flower-plants._ 1687. Calyx, corolla, stamina and ovarium perfectly separated from each other--_Pedunculate corollæ_, _Stielblumen_ or _Hypogynes_. The blossom must be here developed in the most perfect manner; i. e. all its parts must be complete and separated from each other. This is the case only in the hypogynous Polypetalæ. 1688. The lowest organized kinds must, from being a repetition of them, remind us of the grasses and Syngenesia. They are therefore polycarpellar or multi-ovarial.--_Ranunculaceæ_, _Malvaceæ_, _Magnoliaceæ_. 1689. Unto these are allied those plants whose ovaria consist of several carpels, but that are connate with each other, and mutually separate for the first time with their maturation or decay, as in the _Rutaceæ_, _Polygaleæ_, _Malvaceæ_, _Aurantiacæ_, _Platanaceæ_, _Malpighieæ_, _Sapindeæ_. 1690. The highest are characterized by coalition of the carpels into a single ovarium with stunted dissepiments, and by corollæ that are well developed and distinguished for colour, delicacy, and magnitude--_Carnations_, _Violets_, _Cistaceæ_, _Siliquosæ_, _Poppies_, _Gamboge-trees_. _CLASS X._ _Seed-plants._ 1691. Plants having a preponderance of seed, that draws after it all the floral parts. 1692. The ovaria have become seed-like, have separated from each other, and inclose for the most part only a single seed. 1693. As in the grasses and Syngenesia many flowers are collected into a spike or upon a receptacle, so here are many carpels in a single corolla--_Ranunculaceæ_, _Geraniaceæ_, _Tiliaceæ_, _Malvaceæ_, _Magnoliaceæ_. 1694. The stamina are usually of indefinite number, and mostly connate. 1695. All forms of stalks are here met with; such as herbs, bushes, shrubs, and trees. All forms also of leaves; spathose leaves, petiolated leaves, simple and divided, yet rarely pinnated. 1696. The component parts are usually mucilage, as in the roots of the Syngenesia.