12- VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



Will refer the vague and new Species to certain genera; 



as Tournefort, Phimier, Brown, Jacquin. 

 Will point out the natural Order, where it appears. 

 Will mark the native Stations of each plant, and will 



therefore produce more Floras, where there is opportunity, 



particularly Southern or Exotic ones. 



Will obferve their Properties, as their Duration, 

 Semination, Gemmation, Vernation, Aejlivation, Nuptials, 

 Frondefcence, Calendar, Horologe, Sleep, Qualities. 



Will add their Uses; whatever ufes of Nature (of the 

 Pan and of the Pandora) the Pbyfician the Oeconomi/l, &c. 

 have difcovered, and of thefe whatever contributes moft 

 to the glory of the Author of all, and to the advantage of 

 Human Life ; that at length our posterity may enjoy the 

 meridian light of the fcience. 



False BOTANISTS proclaim the Laws of the Art before they 

 have learned them : 

 Extol abfurd Authors, and are jealous of the excellent ones : 

 Steal from others, producing nothing of their own : 

 Boaft much of a little knowledge : 

 Pretend they have difcovered a natural Method : 

 AfTert the Genera to be arbitrary. 



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