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entirely new ; but they have, befides, furniflied 

 me with the means of diftinguifhing the charaders 

 of plants on the firft infpeélion, fo as to be able 

 to fay, at once, This is a native of the mountains. 

 That is an inhabitant of the fhores. By them, I 

 have demonflrated the ufe of the leaves of plants, 

 and have determined by the nautical, or volatile 

 forms of their grains, the relations which they have 

 to the places where they are deftined to grow. I 

 have obferved that the corolU of their flowers had 

 relations, pofitive or negative, to the rays of the 

 Sun, according to the difference of Latitude, and 

 to the points of elevation at which they are to 

 blow. I have afterwards remarked the charming 

 contrails of their leaves, of their flowers, of their 

 fruits, and of their fliems, with the foil and the fky 

 in which they grow, and thofe which they form 

 from genus to genus, being, if I may fay fo, 

 grouped by pairs. Finally, I have indicated the 

 relations in which they ftand to animals, and to 

 Man J to fuch a degree, that, I am confident to 

 affirm, I have demonflrated, there is not a (ingle 

 ihade of colour imprefTed by chance, through the 

 whole extent of Nature. 



By profecuting thefe views, I have fupplied the 

 means of forming complete chapters of Natural 

 Hiflory, from having evinced, that each plant was 

 the centre of the exiftence of an infinite number of 



B b 4 animals, 



