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. Seventh. When you gather plants for examination, collect 4 
considerable number: of the Flowers, and if pofsible, some just 
opening, others fully expanded, and others with the Seed- 
vefsels almost ripe; take care also to gather at least one 
Specimen of the plant. as perfect and as entire as pofsible. 
It was thought necefsary to give.a variety of examples for 
investigation... 1. Because only some of them are to-be found 
at any one season. 2. Because plants common in one:;Country 
are not equally common invall, 3. Because the Studentis not 
_ supposed previously to, be acquainted with many plants, and 
such as he does-know are probably, only a few of the more 
common kind. 4, He is not desired. to-examine and compare 
ail the examples : perhaps it will be: better he should sometimes 
try his strength; by examining unknown pias ahah he may 
_ pick. up in his walks. 
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_LIGUS‘TRUM, (Privet.) ee 
~The Privet is ashrub common in hedges and dhtubbeties i in. 
many parts of England, It generally blofsoms’in June, anil its 
blofsoms are white. Let us suppose a-branch_of it in blofsom 
before us: that we are ignorant what plant it is; and * ‘are 
required to investigate if:’ We look into several of thé Blof- 
soms, and find’2' Staiidae'’ in each, This circuinstance informs 
us it belongs to the Clafs Diandria. ‘Turning to the begitining 
of that Clafs” in the second — we find it ecintiitis ei 
in each’ so that out plant belot fo the Ofder Monséyiat— — 
We find this Order subdivided i hi he and, observing 
what these subdivisions depend upon, see that in our specimen 
the Blofsom is formed of one 
Germen. ‘These circumstances ‘correspond only with the first 
subdivision, which subdivision contains | only one | Genus; so that 
there can be no-doubt but the’plant is a 
too that the Blofsom is ‘¢loven’into four parts, aad that it 
