12 HISTORY OF BOTANY. 



they are no longer necessary ; but botanists have arisen, 

 and still live, who, besides illustrating and endeavouring 

 to perfect systematic botany, have advanced, in a great 

 degree, the more useful parts of the science, by inquiring 

 into the properties of plants, the phenomena of their 

 functions and growth, and the effects they produce on 

 the great system of nature. 



Among the eminent men who have deroted themselves to the 

 subject of plants since the time of Linmeus, are the names of Haller, 

 CEder, Schreber, Jacquin, Bergius, Pallas, Forster,Thunberg,Ju8sieu, 

 Sir J. Banks, Miller, Hedwig, Uryander, Gasrtner, Sir J. E. Smith, 

 Willdenow, Withering, Humboldt, Roxburgh, and many others well 

 known in the annals of botany. 



27. The only system which has appeared, since the 

 introduction of the Linnaean system, requiring our notice, 

 is one in which that learned botanist Jussieu, has im- 

 mortalized his name, by an attempt to arrange all plants 

 in a natural order. 



Of the many beauties of this natural system, and the scientific 

 principle on which it is founded, we purpose hereafter, to give acom- 

 prehensive outline, and as much as possible, still further to display 

 the wonderful laws and regulations of nature, on which it was so 

 admirably established. 



28. We have now taken a general survey of the rise 

 and progress of the science of botany, and as a matter 

 of conclusion, it may not be out of place, to recapitulate 

 the principal points that have come under our considera- 

 tion ; after which, we shall treat of the elements of the 

 study in pursuit, and make every remark worthy or 

 suitable to our purpose. 



