88 Dr. GooDENouGii and Mr. Woodward'; Qbfervatiotis on 



circle of that great man's writings : this is the more furprifing, as, 

 ahnoft in every particle, of arrangement and fyftem, he Ihines among 

 his competitors 



' velut inter ignes 



Luna minores? 



Such an impoverilhed arrangement probably prevented ProfefTor 

 Murray and other editors of his works from attempting any. 



Nothing can be more confufed than Mr. Lightfoot's method — 

 No order is obferved. He feems to have defcribed his plants al- 

 mofl: as they fcverally came to hand. All his defcriptions and 

 figures are excellent ; but a regard to truth obliges us to remark, 

 that in many of his defcriptions he has borrowed very freely from 

 Gmelin, and that without any acknowledgment whatfoever. 



To the praife of the late Mr. Hudfon be it mentioned, that he 

 was the firft who flruck out a true hicidus ordo. All his divifious 

 are taken from one and the fame fource, viz. the different habit 

 and formation of the frond. We have no doubt but that all the 

 Fuci of the known world might be clafTed after his method — a 

 method capable of the moft extetifiv6 amplification. It is needlefs 

 to repeat it here, as it is in every body's hands. If we make any al- 

 teration in his difpofition, it will be little more than to change the 

 words of his division fronde unitd into foliis unitis, a more intelligible 

 term ; and to introduce a new divifion in perfect confonance with 

 the neatnefs of his arrangement — namely, Fronde h'lnc canaliculatdi 

 for fome of the plants which we fhall place under this divifion 

 but ill accord with the charader Fronde plana avenid, under which 

 they were before arranged. It would have ftiortened our labour 

 extremely, could we have followed Mr. Hudfon in his eflential 

 characters ; but fo much new light has been thrown upon the fub- 

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