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which, the Diftribution of Plants has been 
brought toa greater Precifion, and rendered 
more conformable to true Philofophy in 
this Syftem than in any one of thofe which 
preceded it. The Author of it does not 
pretend to call it a natural one ; he gives it 
as artificial only, and modeftly owns his 
Inability to detect the Order purfued by Na- 
ture in her vegetable Produ€iions: But of 
this he feems confident, that no natural 
Syftem can ever be framed, without taking 
in the Materials, out of which he has raifed 
his own; and urges the neceflity of admit- 
ting artificial Syftems for Convenience, till 
one truly natural fhall appear *. 
By the Sexual Syftem, Piants are difpofed 
according to the Number, Proportion, and 
Situation of the Stamina and Fiftilla: The 
Manner of their Diftribution will appear in 
the following Chapters. We fhall here only 
fpeak in general of the Divifions of the 
Syftem. 
* Linnaeus has given Fragmenta Methodi naturalis, 
Fragments of the natural Method, in which he has made a 
Diftribution of Plants under variousOrders, putting to- 
gether in each, fuch as appear to have a natural Affinity 
to each other: This, after a long and fruitlefs Search af- 
terthe natural Method, he gives as the Refult of hisown 
Speculation, for the Affiftance of fuch as may engage in 
the fame Purfuit. Sce his Cla/es Plantarum, page 485. 
and Pbjl. Bot, page 27, 
The 
