the Feftuca fpadicea, Cc. 117 
ring botanifts have been more frequently rendered abortive than 
in any fimilar cafe, except thofe, indeed, in which writers on the 
Materia Medica, with their fovereign power of confounding, have 
interfered. Such miftakes are not here pointed out with any invi- 
dious intention, but folely from a love of truth. Contemptible 
indeed are the critics who can triumph over the occafional inequali- 
ties of an Homer; nor lefs contemptible and ungrateful are thofe 
who, while they live but in the light they borrow from Linnzus, can 
‘exult over imperfections, which are avoided only by perfons who 
have never exerted themfelves in the fervice of fcience or man- 
kind. 
Taz. IO. is an exact copy of Rudbeck's figure above quoted, 
traced from his Campi Elyfii in the Sherardian Library. 
XII. On 
