150 Profzfor MARTYN’s Obfervations 
moft perfons to ufe #//-/haped, funnel-fhaped, and falver-/baped; or bell- 
form, funnel-form, and falver-form; our Englifh tongue admitting 
compounds with great fuccefs and facility: efpecially fince thefe 
terms convey immediately to the Englifh botanift a familiar idea of 
the feveral forms of the corolla, which they are intended to 
exprefs. 
When words alfo have already an appropriate fenfe in Englifh, 
it feems better to tranflate them than to ufe the-originals them- 
felves. Thus, although in Latin we fay caulis friétus or exa/peratus, 
and folium exafperatum; yet it has an abfurd found in Englifh to talk 
of a friét or exafperated ftalk, and of leaves being eva/perated. On 
the contrary, it is füll worfe, although it has not fo ridiculous a 
found, to drop the original Latin term, in order to adopt an Eng- 
lifh one before appropriated to another fenfe, and therefore only 
tending to create confufion. What I mean may be exemplified in 
the terms /anceolate and ferrate, applied to leaves : thefe are become 
fufficiently familiar by ufe; but if not, the explanation muft be re- 
ferred to: whereas, if we ufe the words anced and Jawed, a novice 
might eafily be mifled; for having been accuftomed to the ideas of 
a lanced gum and Jawed wood, he will not readily apply the former 
to the fhape of a lance’s head; or the latter to the fharp notching 
round the edge of a leaf, refembling the teeth of a faw. 
- There are likewife fome Latin words which do not perfectly af- 
 milate to our language, and therefore are better tranflated. Such 
X are teres and amplexicaulis, Now we cannot well fay in Englith zere 
or amplexicaul; but the firft may frequently be tranflated round: this 
however will fometimes create a confufion, and columnar gives the 
idea of teres moft precifely ; for when applied to a ftem, or any of 
its fubdivifions, it fignifies, not a cylindric, but a tapering form, like 
the fhaft of a column. The fecond of thefe terms may be rendered, 
E enough, embracing or frem-clafping. 
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