Ea Dr. SuiTH s Obfervations on 
Thefe publications were compofed upon the plan which Ray af- - 
terwards followed. The authors énumerated every Britifh plant, 
to the beft of their knowledge, not indeed fufficiently difcriminating 
truly wild. from exotic fpecies, and arranged them. alphabetically 
under one or more denominations, taken from any author that 
came in their way. Their works are therefore equally deficient in 
fyftem, and uniformity. of nomenclature; for neither had been 
thonght of in thofe days, at leaft in. this country... Ray introduced 
a fyflematic arrangement, but was fill indifcrimi n: "MS the d 
from which, he took hig fynony ms, choofing, fr ; om m an 
what belt expreffed the plant he meant, or prob | 
as. happened 1 to bei in the moft. genera FA P and Hudfon fink 
difpofed our native plants under the uniform nomenclature of one 
writer, Linnzus ; ; the former indeed only as far as the genera were 
concerned, the latter vith s to both P and fpecies. How, 
- pem gs a more rep one, Aw gp not eset to define X 
words what he fo well underftood, the fpecific differences of plants! 
We fhould then have quoted him-with certainty in every inftance; 
whereas, if he mould 8 now pare chanced to miftake a 3 tour. we 
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obferve that, Ride in quoting es Merrett, How, 0 or r Dillenius fe : 
any plant, we are obliged to name it by the denomination of. fome 
prior writer, under which they have placed it in their books, we 
"exer anfwer for its being the plant intended by that writer. If 
we eleve it to be fo, we quote him enpitidy $ Pdf we certainly know 
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