THESTUDY'OF BOTANY.  —S>_ ig 
end of the: Order, or subdivision of the Order, to which we 
had referred it, and sce what plants are there mentioned and 
included between crotchets. If we have not found the plant 
before, it must be some one of these; therefore looking for 
these in the Index to this volume, and comparing the generic 
descriptions with the specimen in hand, we shall not only dis- 
cover the Genus, but likewise the circumstance which occa- 
— our perplexity. 
e€ young Students are desired to practise the investigation. 
of Genera only, for a considerable time, before they attempt 
to ascertain a Species; and when by this means they have 
attained a pretty accurate knowledge of Clafses and Orders ; 
also of the parts composing a flower, and its subsequent state 
of fruit, or fructification, and likewise of the terms employed 
in describing them, they sans next proceed to determine the 
Species. 
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OF SPECT. ES. 
Fifth. Either in the second or third “i ng we shall find 
the name, and the Efsential-Character of the Genus, followed 
‘by the several British Species which belong to it. Whenever 
the Species are numerous, they are subdivided, Consider, 
then, with which of these subdivisions it agrees ; and having 
determined, that, compare it with the several . Specirie 
Characters., Your plant wl, probably. agree with, some one 
of these... 
If you still are in dascanan by: the ite to figures 
which follow the Specific Character, turn to such figures as 
you pofsefs.; and, to make the point. still more certain, com- 
pareyyour plant with the descriptions which follow the refer- 
ences to. figures; for these will remove many an existing 
doubt, and obviate many a pofsible mistake. 
_If the plant in question be any remarkable Variety, you will 
probably. find it apagdnges 8 after the additional boageen 
mentioned shai as 9a equ. baa geh fire on 
* Sixth. Make it puinaisiahe ale: not to § pass Bocca te 
term, the. precise meaning of which you do not thoroughly 
understand, without ‘consulting the Dictionary... By this, mean 
you will very. soon be able to do without consultiz jitat all, . iy 
