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Difficulty was the greater, becaufe the Method 
of Linnaeus has hitherto been but partially a- 
dopted by our Writers, and therefore no Table 
given in any Work already publifhed, could be 
depended on. 
The Defigns for the Figures of the Plates 
are for the moft Part taken from thofe given 
by Lianeus in his Works. Some of them, 
might, perhaps, have been mended by frefh 
Defigns from Nature; but as the Work here 
given to the Public is profeffedly an Ex- 
tract of the Linnean Dottrines, it was thought 
that the Figures he had himfelf feleted, would, 
upon the whole, come the neareft to his own 
Meaning, and be of the greateft Help in ex- 
plaining it. 
The Reader will find placed before the 
Gloffary, a Collection of all the Terms of 
Art, explained and numbered; the Ufe of 
thefe Terms, fo collected will appear evident, 
.from the Manner of their Arrangement, be- 
ginning with the Root, and continued through 
the Trunk, Branches, Leaves, and Fructifi- 
cation. 
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