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bination of ideas, but which are mere collections of isolated facts, not 

 havin<x an}- distinct relation to each other. 



" This is the only intellioible meaning that can be attached to the term 

 Natural System, of which Nature herself, who creates species onl}', knows 

 nothing. It is absurd to suppose that our genera, orders, classes, and the 

 like, are more than mere contrivances to facilitate the arrangement of oiu- 

 ideas with regard to species. A genus, order, or class is therefore called 

 natural, not because it exists in nature, but because it comprehends species 

 naturally resembling each other more than they resemble any thing else. 



" The advantages of such a system, in applying botany to useful pur- 

 poses, are immense, especially to medical men, with whose profession the 

 science has always been identified. A knowledge of the properties of one 

 plant is a guide to the practitioner, which enables him to substitute some 

 otiicr with confidence which is naturally allied to it ; and physicians on 

 foreign stations may direct their enquiries, not empirically, but upon fixed 

 principles, into the quahties of the medicinal plants which Nature has 

 provided in every region for the alleviation of the maladies peculiar to it. 

 To horticulturists it is not less important : the propagation or cultivation of 

 one plant is usually applicable to all its kindred ; the habits of one species 

 in an order will often be those of the rest ; many a gardener might have 

 escaped the pain of a poisoned limb, had he been acquainted with tiie laws 

 of affinity; and finally, the phenomena of grafting, &c., those curious 

 o[)erations, which form one of the grand features of distinction between 

 the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and the success of which is wholly 

 controlled by the ties of blood, can only be understood by the students of 

 the natural system." 



These quotations sufficiently evince the intelligible manner in which the 

 author discusses his subject. We shall only say, in conclusion, that we 

 confidently trust that this lutrochtction to the Katitral System will speedily 

 find its way into the hands of all who are anxious to attain such a know- 

 ledge of plants as will be permanently and extensively useful. Should 

 difficulties be found in the technical parts of the book, the tyro may rest 

 assured that they will speedily vanish before the march of his research. 

 From the commencement of the Gardener's Magazine we have alwaj's 

 warmly recommended the adoption of the natural system; and it is our 

 intention, now Professor Lindley has produced this Introduction, to pro- 

 mote its circulation by every means in our power, and to second his efforts, 

 by explaining and illustrating the contents of the work, whenever oppor- 

 tunities shall come in our way. — R. S. 



Ilardcastlc, Lucy : An Introduction to the Elements of the Linnean Sys- 

 tem of Botany, for Young Persons. London, 1830. Post 4to, pp. 154-. 

 120 wood-cuts. 8.?. 



Ahmni, , M.D., Professor of Botany to Trinity College, Dublin : An 



Analytical Arrangement of Plants, &:c. Dublin, 1829. 8vo. 



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