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lowed is of little "P € each species is placed where its most 
striking similitudes dem hall probably be still more reproached for 
dividing them into (nons, qe these are often so obvious and decided that 
our vulgar clowns have given names to them ; nor will a Daffodil, Hoop Petti- 
coat, Jonquil, or Primrose Peerless, ever be confounded by those genuine fol- 
only to say, that if every class, order, genus, and species could be distinguished 
by characters of equal value, this very uniformity, however suited to such as 
are doomed to plod over the dull formal track of Linné, could not fail to dis- 
ust every one who has rambled through the cheerful winding path of A. L. 
de Jussieu. In fact, the Creator, among those of his works which we are per- 
in shades of affini the tints of their flowers; and a truly philosophical 
student, after see —— not veris d without success, to measure 
some of their intervals, find nay of them, when 
fatigued with the multiplicity of the lovely objects. hofie him.” 
And again, under Strumaree :— 
“They have been referred to one genus by Jacquin, from whom I merely 
ed 
an herbarium, fell into the error of describing Agapanthus with a regular 
corolla; nor has Strumaria any immediate affinity to Leucoium, as he sup- 
posed. Dryander, on the contrary, never trusted to a dried plant if he could 
see it Bring s aoe Jacquin ena most bsppily € my ideas of what is 
, partly Ovid's, 
necessary to 
nr «c Par cunctis facies, qualem decet 
Et diversa tamen dum est gratia forme 
Ut mox agnoscas, quá sint de stirpe create.’ ” 
Of course there is much in the present publication, coming as it does 
nearly forty years after its date, that has already found its way into 
