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All plants that are not defcribed by either of the 
Linnzus’s have every fynonym of careful writers, 
that could be difcovereds annexed to them. 
When the younger Linnzeus was in England, in 
1781 and 1782, he compofed a treatife on the Palms 
and Liliaceous Plants, extracts, of which, as far as 
was thought likely to be ufeful to this Catalogue, 
he communicated to the Author; this Manufcript 
is quoted under the abbreviation of Linn. fil. His 
death, which happened foon after his return to 
Sweden, prevented its publication; but it is in the 
poffefion of Dr. James Edward Smith, of London, 
as are alfo the libraries and collections of both the _ 
Father and the Son. | 
References are frequently made to the works of — 
_M. L’Heritier, under Plants of which he has not 
yet publithed either defcriptions or figures; thefe 
are taken from communications this gentleman 
frequently made, during the courfe of printing, of 
every thing he had prepared for the prefs. But, as 
the public will in due time be put into poffeffion of 
the whole, little need be faid on this fubject. 
‘Throughout the ante of this Coslognay an at- 
tempt is made to trace back, as far as poffible, how 
long each Plant has been cultivated in the Britith 
Gardens, and to fix, with as much precifion as the 
nature of the fubjec would allow, the epoch of its 
introduétion, 
