The PREFACE, k 



new Words himfelfj but refers his 

 Reader to Nature % he bids him 

 them i?i the Flowers^ where he foun 



e?7i. 



Tlje farther we perufe this Confide 



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ration^ the more we JJjall find a B 

 like the frefent necejfary. It appears^ 

 that what are called the Books 



tn 



Botany^ far from being in the 



pafs of ma?iy who wifh to he tfeful in 



heir Knowledge of Plants ^ are ?wt to 



he underfiood by any^ except a f 



ewy 



who follow the tfelefs^ though curious 



Steps of the Author ; in many Parts 



perhapSy only by the Author himfelf 



And as for the others which have not 

 thefe fafhionable Innovations^ the bell 

 among them fay nothing of their Ufe 

 or Virtue at alL The Authors efleem 

 this a particular Branch of Know- 

 ledgey €Lnd in this they are right. He 



who W7'ites of the Forms and Fig 

 of Plajits is a Naturalifly ajtd h 

 defcribes their Virtues ou^ht to be a 



Phyjician : He who writes a vejy good 

 Hiflory of Pla?2tSy may not have it in 



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