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ff flowers^ plants, and trees, into men and 

 " women. I," continued he, " will write 

 " the notes, which muft be fcientific ; and 

 <( you mall write the verfe." 



Mifs S. obferved, that, befides her want 

 of botanic knowledge, the plan was not 

 ftridly proper for a female pen ; that me 

 felt how eminently it was adapted to the 

 efflorefcence of his own fancy. 



He objected the profeffional danger of 

 coming forward an acknowledged poet. 

 It \vas pleaded, that on his firft com- 

 mencing medical profeffor, there might 

 have been no danger ; but that, beneath 

 the unbounded confidence his experienced 

 fkill in medicine had obtained from the 

 public, all rifque of injury by reputation 

 flowing in upon him from a new fource 

 was precluded ; efpecially fince the fubjecl; 

 of the poetry, and ftill more trie notes, 

 would be connected with pathology. 



Dr. Darwin took his friend's advice, 

 K 2, and 



