3 c8 ON A NATURAL SYSTEM 



not therefore be aclmiffible, by fuppofing the 

 acid toconllrucl the namc^ as fublhuitivcs ? Aa 

 for example, vitriolicuin % nitrofum, wuriaticutn, 

 regal'mum, Jluoratum, arft-nica/f, boractaw/t t ftic- 

 cburiniim, oxyaHnutn, (inherent in the acid of the 

 wood (brrel) tat'turum, benzoinum t citrinum>fuc- 

 cineuw, galuclicuni, formicate ifibnccum, phofyho- 

 reum, and atreum. Phlogillicatcd vitriolic :icid 

 mi^ht be named fulphitreum, and plilogiilicuted 

 nitrous acid nitreuw. In like munner, in the 

 genus of alkalies, the veg?uiMc will be potnjli- 

 iium ; tlie mineral natrum, a mine by which it 

 has fomctimc been already knov.n; and the vo- 

 latile will be ammoniticuni. Tlie gr:at advan- 

 tage of this fimplicity, as we /hall Ice p relent Jy, 

 will be obvious in giving names to compounded 

 Jubilances ; which, if they confirt of more tlr.ni 

 two or three words, will give rife to a diilule and 

 circuitous llile, bjth in fpcakin^ and writing. 

 All names certainly proceeding from the defi- 

 nition of lev oral words are by far the moil im- 

 proper. 



r ) cxcVi Names <*f Species demon]] rated in tbe 

 Cafe of Suits. 



SPEC if ic differences, that can ferve as di- 

 flindl names, arc ufed with confiderablc advan- 

 tage. Admitting what has been already pro- 

 pofed in tlie preceding paragraph, thi* very ea- 



fily 



