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WOuKl be difficult to find the limits between 

 them. The polypus and the mofs joyn the ve- 

 getable, and the animal kingdom together, for 

 the plants called conferva and the animals cal- 

 led coralline^ are not eafy to diftinguilh, and 

 the corah connedl the animal, vegetable and 

 fofTil world. 



Hence the botanifts of this age have been 

 bufied about fettling n;itural clafles, which is 

 an affair of the greateft importance, and diffi- 

 culty •, but fince the vegetables hitherto dif- 

 covered are not fufficient for that purpofe, 

 this part of knowledge is not compleat. It 

 is therefore incumbent on botanifts to get ac- 

 quainted with exotic plants, that they may 

 arrive at the end defirqd. If all the colum- 

 niferous plants except the mujk-mallow were 

 known, the turner a never could be referred 

 to this order, but that, as foon as it was exa- 

 mined, conneded the turnera with the columni- 

 ferous plants. 



Where the natural claffes are fettled we find 

 the vegetables fo near akin to one another, 

 that we can fcarcely diftinguifn them, as in 

 the umhellated^ the fdiquofe^ the le^uminofe^ the 

 compofite^ &c. molt of thefe orders grow in 



Europe, 



