To) B O TaN Y. 25% 
SCENT in Plants is, of all other Cir- 
cumftances, the leaft to be depended on; 
and therefore all Species grounded on a Dif- 
tinction in the Scent only, are to be rejected, 
and referred to Varieties. 
TASTE in Plants is a Circumftance va- 
riable from Soil or Culture; and not to be 
depended on as a real Difference. The 
Dittin@ions of Gardeners in Fruit of the 
fame Species, is confidered by Linnaeus as a 
Variety too minute even to enter the Pro- 
vince of Botany; and therefore the various 
Names *, which have been given to thefe 
DiftinGtions, are to be neglected as imper- 
tinent in this Science; though, for the Pur- 
pofes of Gardening, they have their Ufe. 
The VIRTUES and USES of Plants 
furnifh no fpecific Difference ; and the Dit 
tinGtions therefore of phyfical Writers are 
not always to be depended on. 
The DURATION of Plants is no fure 
Mark of diftinét Species, being often owing 
rather to the Place than to the Nature of 
the Plant. In warm Regions, Plants that 
* Poma Paradifiaca Pyra Falerna 
Prafomila Favonia 
‘Rutbelliana Boni Chriftiana 
Borflorphiana Cruffamina 
Appiana Picena 
Melimela Libraria. 
are 
