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.