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m | : Edward Smith, M.D. ERS. P.L.S. 
2 wi | Read March. 5 1799. 
TO. ‘Brith ù onus ¢ of plants, except sitas Conferva, hae been 
hitherto lefs underftood than that of Mentha; either with 
refpe& to its fpecies, and the principles upon which their diftinc- 
tions ought to be founded, or the AS. of thofe fpecies in the 
moft bs as well is the more an "writers. - in his 
tile in ‘taints 3 ; i he MUT RE jotwit eric all fie had § in that 
‘edition added to thofe of Ray, there ftill remained fome defcribed 
| by Merrett, sod aere. obferved by — onl m pana he 
E d dk may be allowed a 1 : forma re vse two parts. 
fift, it will be found Mein to ede? how preceding authors 
“have treated i it; and fecondly, t to eaque. gst it Bed: bal — more 
intelligible i in future. | 
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