PREFACE of the TRANSLATORS. v. 



.name Amygdalus includes the Peach as well as the 

 Almond-, Prunus includes the Cherry, Apricot, and 

 Laurel) as well as the Plum-, and Pyrus the Apple, 



fweet-fower d Crab, and the g>uince, as well as the 

 Pear ; whence it would have been productive of much 

 confunon to have given any of thefe englifh names to 

 families, which belong to individuals. The englifh 

 generic names however, which are well eftablifhed, 

 we have occafionally added in italics after the latin 

 ones. In refpect to the individuals or Specks of Plants 

 we have, by the advice of many of our botanical cor- 

 refpondents, retained the Trivial Name ufed by Lin- 

 NEUS;asitis become a kind of cognomen along with 

 the generic name ; and where it is expreilive of any pe- 

 culiarity of the plant, we have tranflated it by an equi- 

 valent englifh word. The Quotations from other works 

 we have placed in the index-form, as our author has 

 difpofed them ; and have added the beft received engli/h 

 names in their proper places from Miller, Hudson, 

 Lightfoot, &c. and referred to them in our Index 

 of Synonymies. 



The learned reader will perceive, that We have made 

 a flight change in the conftruction of the fexual dif- 

 tinclions of the ClafTes on account of the greater deli- 

 cacy of modern language ; hence the words, one male, 

 and one female, are ufed in preference to one virility 

 one feminality. In regard to the general language, 

 we have endeavoured to copy that of Linneus with 

 the moft fcrupulous exactnefs ; for as this illuftrious 

 Naturalift may be faid to have formed a language, 

 rather than to have found one, fuitable to his purpoie ; 

 and appears to have ftudied every part of his work, 

 from the great outline of the fyftem to the moft minute 



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