STUDY XI. 



I09 



ftudy prolific of delight, a fublime Science, wor- 

 thy only of the genius of a Newton. As Nature 

 has introduced, in my opinion, not only the co- 

 lours, the favours, and the perfumes, but likewife 

 every model of form into the leaves, the flowers, 

 and the fruits of all climates, whether in trees, in 

 herbage, or in mofles ; the vegetable forms of 

 other parts of the World, might be referred to 

 thofe of our own country which are moft familiar 

 to us. Such approximations would be much more 

 intelligible than Greek compound words, and 

 would manifeft new relations in $e different dalles 

 of the fame kingdom. 



They would be no lefs neceflary for exprefiîng 

 the aggregations of the flowers on their fterns, of 

 the ftems round the root, and the groups of young 

 plants around the parent-plant, it may be affirm- 

 ed, that the names of moft of thefe vegetable ag- 

 gregations and difpofitions are yet to be invented ; 

 the greateft Matters not having been fortunate in 

 characterizing them, or, to fpeak without referve, 

 not having made it any part of their ftudy. For 

 example, when T'onmefort * fpeaks, in his Voyage 

 to the Levant, of a heliotrope of the Ifle of Naxos, 

 which he characterizes thus, heliotropum humifufum, 

 flore minimo, femine magno, the creeping heliotrope, 



* Towmefort'% Voyage to the Levant, vol. i. 



with 



