in the schools, that which constitutes an individual a distinct person.

PERSONATÆ, the name of the 40th order in Linnæus's Fragments of a Natural Method, consisting of a number of plants whose flowers are furnished with an irregular gaping or grinning petal, which, in figure, somewhat resembles the snout of an animal. The bulk of the genera of this natural order arrange themselves under the class and order didynamia angiospermae of the Sexual Method.

The rest, although they cannot enter into the artificial clas just mentioned, for want of the classic character, the inequality of the stamens; yet, in a natural method, which admits of greater latitude, may be arranged with those plants, which they resemble in their habit and general appearance, and particularly in the circumstance expressed in that title.