Pipes BAC. E, 
HOUGH the Study of Botany is of late 
ae Years become a very general Amufe- 
ment in this Country, there has yet appeared no 
Work, in our own Language, that profeffedly 
treats of the Elements of that Science; it is 
therefore hoped, that what is now offered to the 
Public, if it fhall appear to have been carefully 
executed, will be confidered as a Performance of 
fome Utility. The matter it contains, or at 
Igaft the far greater Part of it, will probably be 
new to the Engli/h Reader; for though fome few 
Explanations of the fame Kind may be found 
inter{perfed in larger Works, thefe are for the 
moft Part too coftly to fall into many Hands; 
nor could the Reader expeét to find therein 
the Whole of what he feeks, the explaining the 
Theory of the Science not having been the im- 
mediate Object of thofe Publications. | 
The Matter of the following Sheets has been 
collected from the Works of the celebrated Dr. 
a Linnaeus; 
