PHYSICAL ann LITERARY. 279 
_ to inquire into the ftru@ure of vegetables, I 
would never been at fo much pains to confute 
7 it: but, fince it has given occafion to an in. 
tire deformation of botany, and to the in- 
troduction of an infinite number of new 
names, and perplexing, tho’ childith terms, 
whereby this moft ufeful fcience, is like to be- 
come not only vaftly more difficult, but even 
ridiculous ; I thought it high time to publith 
fuch arguments as to me appeared fufficient, 
by fapping the foundation, to overturn this 
hideous fuperftructare. For furely no me- 
thod at all, is much better, than fuch an one, 
whofe nomenclature is more difficultly acqui- 
red, than the knowledge of the plants them- 
_ felves, which alone is true botany. But of 
this more elfewhere (0). It remains only 
that we inquire a little intothe real ufe of the 
duft of the apices. 
» EG eare ve 
56. AuTuors are fo much divided in opi- 
__ hiion, as to the primary ufe of this duft, that 
~ it may be doubted whether it be of any to 
the plant which produces it. And, fince ve- 
 getables ferve only, or at leaft chiefly, for the 
ufe 
- (e} Fyrocin. Bot. r. p. 40. 50. 
