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the Annals of Botany. To have undertaken to digest 

 all these improvements, and to have attempted to 

 elucidate them by all that has been done by others, 

 as Ventenat, Salisbury, Link, and especially by Mr. 

 Brown and Prof. DeCandolle, would have been quite 

 beyond the scope of the present publication. Such a 

 task indeed could be undertaken by Jussieu himself 

 alone, who has now for thirty years bent all his 

 attention to the subject, with a view to a new edition 

 of his immortal work, but has not been able to com- 

 plete his scheme. 



Meanwhile DeCandolle, in his Theorie Elemen- 

 taire de la Botanique, published in 1813, p. 213, has 

 proposed a sketch of Jussieu's System, with many of 

 the above additions, insomuch that the original 100 

 Orders are here augmented to 145. The series in 

 which they are disposed by their Cotyledons is given, 

 as avowedly artificial. The terminations of the names 

 of the Orders, which are French, are according to 

 the more recent plan of Jussieu and his followers. 

 For instance, Convolvulacees, Convolvulacece, and 

 Cistinees, Cistinece, instead of Convolvali and Cisti. 

 But as this scheme of nomenclature is scarcely yet 

 settled, and may again be altered, I have rather 

 chosen to retain the original terminations, tillJussieu, 

 by a new edition, has established one or the other, 

 according to an uniform plan. 



The question of the natural or artificial character 

 of Jussieu's System has been ably discussed by the 



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