( i* ) 

 the Author hopes that he may have met 

 the ideas of his friends. 



Thefe Plates, with their explanations, 

 may be coniidered as an entire work : but 

 it is prefumed that they will be much more 

 fatisfaclory when ftudied jointly with the 

 Letters. 



Six plates are given to illuftrate Roufleau's 

 fix letters upon the moil: remarkable Natural 

 Claries. The reft are intended to explain 

 the ClaiTes of Linn anus's Syftem in their or- 

 der, except the thirty-fourth, which exhibits 

 figures of the moft remarkable Nectaries. 

 No general plate, explanatory of the claflical 

 characters, is given ; both becaufe it has al- 

 ready been elegantly done by Mr. Curtis, 

 and alfo may eafily be collected from the 

 particular plates of this work. 



Thus 



