176 AN INTRODUCTION 
Shrubs, when their Stems come up with= 
out Buds *. 
Trees, when their Stems come up with 
Buds. 
Vegetables are each primarily divifible 
into, 1. The Root. 2.-The Herd or Plant 
itfelf. 3. The Fruéfification. Of thefe the 
laft has been already treated of in the firft 
Book: The two others, upon which the fpe- 
cific Differences of Vegetables more imme- 
diately depend, come now under Confidera- 
tion, and will be the Subject Matter of the 
enfuing Chapters fT. 
* Nature has put no Limits between a Tree and a 
Shrub, which is only a Vulgar Diftin€tion. This Lin- 
zeus acknowledges; and argues, that his own Diftin@iion 
though he thinks it the beft, is neverthelefs exception- 
able; inafmuch as there are feldom any Buds upon the 
large Trees.in India; all which muft therefore by this 
Definition, notwithftanding their great Height, be ranked 
with Shrubs. 
+ It may not be improper here to obviate an Objection 
that may be made to the Method purfued in this Work. 
It may be afked, if the Matter of this third Part would 
not have ftood more properly in the firft. In anfwer to 
this it is admitted, that the Order of Nature would 
thereby have been more dire@ly followed: But the De- 
fign of this Work was not fo much to follow the Order 
of Nature, as to explain the Syftem of Linneus; and as 
the Claffes, Orders, and Genera which come firft in the 
Syftem are grounded on the Fructification, the Begins 
ning with that Part of the Vegetable was indifpenfably 
neceflary. 
GC Ee P. 
