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in honest English, of good Johnsonian lineage, touched 

 here and there with colour of a little finer or Elizabethan 

 quality : and that the things they tell you are compre- 

 hensible by any moderately industrious and intelligent 

 person ; and accurate, to a degree which the accepted 

 methods of modern science cannot, in my own particular 

 fields, approach. 



11. Of which accuracy, the reader may observe for 

 immediate instance, my extrication for him, from among 

 the uvularias, of these five species of the Butterwort; 

 which, being all that need be distinctly named and re- 

 membered, do need to be first carefully distinguished, 

 and then remembered in their companionship. So alike 

 are they, that Gerarde makes no distinction among them ; 

 but masses them under the general type of the frequent 

 English one, described as the second kind of his promis- 

 cuous group of c Sanicle,' " which Clusius calleth Pingui- 

 cula ; not before his time remembered, hath sundry small 

 thick leaves, fat and full of juice, being broad towards 

 the root and sharp towards the point, of a faint green 

 colour, and bitter in taste ; out of the middest whereof 

 sprouteth or shooteth up a naked slender stalke nine 

 inches long, every stalke bearing one flower and no more, 

 sometimes white, and sometimes of a bluish purple colour, 

 fashioned like unto the common Monkshoods" (he means 

 Larkspurs) " called Consolida Regalis, having the like spur 

 or Lark's heel attached thereto." Then after describ- 

 ing a third kind of Sanicle (Cortusa Mathioli, a large- 



