xiv P.R,E, FA, C7 Ee 
publifhed in the Amanitates Academice at Leyden, 
in 1749. 
Having thus explained, as far as feems necef- 
fary, the new Principles upon which the Refor- 
mation of the former vicious Syftems of Botany 
has been undertaken by the later Batanifts, we. 
come to fhew, as we propofed, the Method that 
has been followed inthis IntRopucrio to the 
Science. 
The Work is divided into three Parts, and 
each Part into fundry Chapters. The Subject 
of each Chapter may be‘feen in the Table of 
Contents prefixed to the Work; but with Re- 
{pect to the three Parts, as no Title or Head 
explanatory of the Matter each contains, could 
be conveniently prefixed to them, it will be 
proper to explain here the Scope of this Divi- 
fion. 
Vegetables, according to Lianeus, are prima- 
rily divifible into three Parts. 1. The Root. 
2. The Herd or Plant itfelf. 3. The Fruéi a 
tion, And in this Order thefe Parts might have 
been treated, were it not on Account of the 
Sexual Syftem; but as the Explanation of the 
latter was the principal Objeét of this Work, 
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