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' and it is a lamentable truth, that, our experimental know- 
re : for 
ledge of many of the herbaceous fimples is extremely defed 
as v/riters on the Materia Medica 
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this part 
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their predeceflbrs, the virtues now 
wholly referrible to the authority of 
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of the late Dr. Cullen, have furnifhed the largefl; contribution. 
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the author an opportunity of knowing already the fentiments enter- 
tained of it, by feveral Gentlemen of great medical and botanical 
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authority; from whofe unfolicited communications he has derived 
confiderable affiftance, and for whofe friendly fuggeilions he defires; 
to make his moil grateful acknowledgments. 
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